The self-described pro-transparency group WikiLeaks elbowed a reporter on Twitter whose data was seized by the Justice Department as part of a federal investigation into leaks of classified information. The organisation quoted the reporter’s tweets, in which she first criticised a fictional character for sleeping with a source to get […]
Citing an unnamed source, The Intercept reported that Jared Kushner discussed classified information from the president’s daily briefing with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who then bragged that he had Kushner “in his pocket.” The top-secret information included US intelligence on Saudi royals opposing the crown prince, the […]
Zuma, a top-secret government payload launched by SpaceX, reportedly crashed to Earth on Sunday night. SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk, says its rocket performed correctly. The reported failure may trace back to an adaptor built by Northrop Grumman that connected the satellite to the rocket. SpaceX typically supplies […]
The US government has uploaded 62 newly declassified nuclear-explosion videos to YouTube. The footage is a small share of the 10,000 Cold War-era films that archivists and physicists are trying to rescue. Re-analysis of the old movies will help the military modernise its nuclear weapons stockpile – and maybe prevent […]
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The US government detonated hundreds upon hundreds of above-ground nuclear explosions from 1945 to 1963 – right up until the first nuclear test-ban treaty was signed. The experiments tried out new bomb designs, measured their explosive power (called yield), verified that existing weapons still worked, and studied what might happen […]
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