BALTIC GHOST: U.S. European Command’s cyber defense exercises with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 2013-2019, from its declassified after-action reports.
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Goldsboro B-52 Crash With Two Hydrogen Bombs
A B-52 broke up over Goldsboro, N.C., in 1961 and dropped two Mk 39 hydrogen bombs. Sandia’s report, McNamara’s remark and a 1969 memo tell the story.
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Project Sunshine: The AEC’s Secret Strontium-90 Bone Survey
Project Sunshine: how the AEC secretly gathered infant bones worldwide in the 1950s to measure strontium-90 fallout, traced through declassified records.
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Cold War Spy Plane Losses: Joint Staff’s Tally
A 1992 Joint Staff tally listed 21 Cold War spy plane losses and 131 unaccounted-for servicemen. The released file, its loss table and what is withheld.
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Project Horizon: US Army Plan for a Military Outpost on the Moon
In 1959 the Army proposed a 12-man military outpost on the Moon by November 1966, at $6 billion. What the declassified Project Horizon report planned.
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Project SHAMROCK: The NSA’s Telegram Program
From 1945 to 1975 the NSA got copies of Americans’ overseas telegrams from three cable firms, without warrants. The Church record and NSA’s own history.
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Camp Century and Project Iceworm: The Army Under Greenland’s Ice
Camp Century, 1959-1967: the Army’s nuclear-powered base in the Greenland ice, the Iceworm missile plan it tested and the waste it left, from the record.
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Operation Popeye: The Pentagon’s Secret Rainmaking Over the Ho Chi Minh Trail
U.S. planes seeded monsoon clouds over the Ho Chi Minh Trail from 1967 to 1972 in 2,602 sorties. The declassified record of Operation Popeye, year by year.
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Operation Mongoose: Kennedy’s Cuba Project
Operation Mongoose in the declassified record: Kennedy’s 1961 order, Lansdale’s six-phase plan for a 1962 revolt in Cuba, and the missile-crisis halt.