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Gadgets the Pentagon Made — From the Microwave to the New iPhone

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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...

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Crack 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...

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Darpa’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...

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Cyborgs, 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...

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The 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...

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Washington’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...

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Declassified 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...

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How 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...

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Nuke-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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