New Environmental Assessment Reveals Fascinating Alternatives to Land-Based ICBMs July 13, 2022
A new Air Force environmental assessment reveals that it considered basing ICBMs in underground railway tunnels––or possibly underwater.
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DoD Again Presses for New FOIA Exemption June 8, 2021
The Department of Defense is once again asking Congress for an exemption from the Freedom of Information Act for certain unclassified military information including records on critical infrastructure and military…
Read moreMore Light on Black Program to Track UFOs January 17, 2019
The Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed this week that it had funded research on warp drive, invisibility cloaking, and other areas of fringe or speculative science and engineering as part of…
Read moreDOE Declassifies Declassification of Downblending Move October 18, 2018
Last year, the Department of Energy decided to declassify the fact it intended to make 25 metric tons of Highly Enriched Uranium available from “the national security inventory” for downblending…
Read moreAircraft Interdiction Nets Colombian Cocaine October 11, 2018
With the support of U.S. intelligence, the Colombian Air Force last year engaged dozens of aircraft suspected of illicit drug trafficking, leading to the seizure of 4.4 metric tons of…
Read moreTo Fix FOIA, “Best Practices” Will Not Be Enough June 28, 2018
Many executive branch agencies have significant backlogs of Freedom of Information Act requests that could be reduced by adopting procedural improvements. And some agencies have made such improvements, a new…
Read moreCourt Rules in Favor of Selective Disclosure April 30, 2018
The Central Intelligence Agency can selectively disclose classified information to reporters while withholding that very same information from a requester under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal court ruled…
Read moreA Forum for Classified Research on Cybersecurity April 19, 2018
By definition, scientists who perform classified research cannot take full advantage of the standard practice of peer review and publication to assure the quality of their work and to disseminate…
Read moreUS Gifts to Foreign Individuals Reported April 19, 2018
The Obama Administration gave dozens of wrist watches to various foreign leaders in 2014. A newly released State Department report to Congress lists all of the…
Read moreDOE Seeks to End MOX Plutonium Disposal Program February 26, 2018
The Trump Administration requested $220 million next year “to continue the orderly and safe closure of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility.” The MOX Fuel…
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