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Rumsfeld during a Pentagon news briefing in February 2002 "There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. [1]
A fixed model considers the "known unknowns", but ignores the "unknown unknowns", made famous by a statement of Donald Rumsfeld. [19] The term "unknown unknowns" appeared in a 1982 New Yorker article on the aerospace industry, which cites the example of metal fatigue, the cause of crashes in Comet airliners in the 1950s. [20]
Known and Unknown: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by Donald Rumsfeld published through Penguin Group USA in February 2011. It covers a variety of his experiences such as serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives in the late 60s, as a member of the Nixon and Ford administrations during the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, and as George W. Bush's Secretary of ...
The good news is that there simply aren’t as many unknowns heading into 2024. The outcome and whether or not it’s fair depends on all of us showing up to vote, upholding the rule of law, and ...
The first-term senator has developed a strong rapport with Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and leading MAGA figures during his recent rise in Republican politics. Vance is an Ivy League-educated ...
Rumsfeld gradually lost political support and resigned in late 2006. In his retirement years, he published an autobiography, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, as well as Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life.
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday as policymakers weigh the direction of inflation and the potential effect of economic policies expected from the new Trump administration.
In philosophy, unknowability is the possibility of inherently unaccessible knowledge.It addresses the epistemology of that which cannot be known. Some related concepts include the limits of knowledge, ignorabimus, unknown unknowns, the halting problem, and chaos theory.