Category: National Security

For over forty years, the Minuteman silo-based ICBMs formed one critical leg of the sacrosanct US nuclear triad, hypothetically deterring Soviet Politburo members from unleashing World War III. As far as can be ascertained, the 400 Minuteman III missiles, each reportedly armed with a 300-kiloton warhead sufficient to cause over a million deaths if detonated […]

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A pair of books released weeks before the election, written by key players in the post-2016 investigation of Donald Trump’s multiple ties to Russia, brings our attention back to something that Republicans say is a hoax and Democrats seem all too ready to forget: that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin apparently has leverage over the Manhattan […]

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On July 8th, the Defense Department announced that it was not going to terminate the Air Force’s troubled Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), but would instead sink more taxpayer dollars into a weapons system estimated to cost $140.9 billion, an increase of 81% over an initial 2020 estimate of $77.7 billion. The Sentinel ICBMs—with a […]

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For nearly a century, there has been a never-ending narrative about UFOs crashing to Earth. The public has been bombarded with ever-more lurid tales about how the Pentagon and military contractors have been “reverse engineering” alien spacecraft they were secretly keeping hidden from public view — along with the remains of aliens they allegedly retrieved. […]

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Official Washington has lost the plot, and I’ve never been more frightened for the future of America. No, I’m not talking about the fear of losing our democracy to authoritarian theocrats, though that remains a constant existential threat. I’m concerned that the pro-democracy “good guys” have settled into a debilitating groupthink. To use the Rumsfeldian […]

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