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Army Biolab’s Missing Vials May Never Be Found (Which, Oddly, Isn’t That Scary)
Vials of a potentially harmful pathogen have gone missing at Fort Detrick, the Army’s main biodefense lab. But don’t freak out. The samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) virus are relatively...
View ArticleBlast! Los Alamos Researchers Accidentially Demolish Building with a Cannon...
Los Alamos National Lab’s history of security and safety woes is long and well-documented. But even by the shoddy standards of the notoriously-lax birthplace of the atomic bomb, this latest incident is...
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Israeli Soldier Defends Her ‘Sexy’ Facebook Prisoner Pics
Posing and smiling with blindfolded Palestinian prisoners — and then posting the pics to Facebook? What’s the big deal, an Israeli reserve officer asks. “There’s no violence or intention to humiliate...
View ArticleCommunication With 50 Nuke Missiles Dropped in ICBM Snafu
The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming couldn’t reliably communicate or monitor...
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Nicaraguan Invasion? Blame Google Maps
An embarrassing error on Google Maps has been blamed for Nicaragua’s accidental invasion of Costa Rica. Last week, Nicaraguan troops crossed the border, took down a Costa Rican flag and defiantly...
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Danger, MSNBC! [Updated Again]
Here’s me, talking with Rachel Maddow about L.A.’s mystery “missile” that wasn’t. After the show, reader J emailed me a picture, taken last month, of a jet contrail that could’ve been mistaken for a...
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Darpa: Now We Know Why Our Mach-20 Ship Crashed
It took six months, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency finally has a handle on what caused its hypersonic weapon prototype to “terminate” itself over the Pacific Ocean back in April. The...
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Some Hobbled Stealth Fighters Cleared to Fly
The problems are far from fixed. But at least some of the U.S. stealth fighters are now allowed to start flying again. The rest are grounded until God knows when. The U.S. military cleared 20 Joint...
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Navy Grounds Drone Copter Fleet
In recent years, the Navy's Fire Scout robotic helicopters have racked up quite a resume: Drug busts off the coast of Latin America, covert surveillance in the skies above Afghanistan. But now, the...
View ArticleDHS Issued False ‘Water Pump Hack’ Report, And Called It a ‘Success’
A Senate report finds that DHS hyped a cyberattack that never happened.
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