Last Nuclear ‘Monster Weapon’ Gets Dismantled
The B53 gravity bomb was the perfect Cold War weapon: dumb and powerful, it vastly outclassed the destructive force of the bombs that vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On Tuesday, the final B53 will be...
View ArticleCrack This Code and Become a British Spy
The GCHQ -- Britain's secretive agency of intelligence experts -- wants to find new spies. To make sure it has a candidate who's up to scratch, the agency is inviting hobbyist cryptanalysts to try and...
View ArticleDarpa’s Magic Plan: ‘Battlefield Illusions’ to Mess With Enemy Minds
Arthur C. Clarke once famously quipped that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." So perhaps it was inevitable that the Pentagon's extreme technology arm would...
View ArticleCyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden...
I'd like to pretend there was some master plan, that the site you see before you crept out of our skulls fully-formed. But the truth is, when Sharon Weinberger and I launched Danger Room five years ago...
View ArticleThe Libyan Job: Insiders Used War to Steal Priceless Artifacts
BENGHAZI, Libya — The treasure was kept mostly in two wooden chests, and locked away in a bank vault: thousands of coins, jewelry and figurines, some around 2,600 years old. For decades it sat in the...
View ArticleWashington’s 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Secrets From You
The government's vast secrecy bureaucracy does two things with great frequency. The first, of course, is keeping secrets. The second is devising elaborate reasons why you can't know what those secrets...
View ArticleDeclassified Photos Reveal CIA’s Deep-Sea Rescue of a Spy Satellite
Only July 10, 1971, a capsule filled with film from America's top spy satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and settled 16,000 feet below. The CIA and the Navy decided they had to launch a deep-sea...
View ArticleHow Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld's tale began in 1961 on a series of tiny islands in the South...
View ArticleNuke-Powered USS Enterprise Boldly Went Where No Aircraft Carrier Went Before
The world's first nuclear aircraft carrier was a mainstay of the U.S. Navy for 51 years. As the U.S.S. Enterprise retires on Saturday, here's a look back at this historic ship.
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