For any researcher out there that feels their efforts could never make a big difference in the world, one only needs to look at Kate Doyle to gain a bit of hope. Kate Doyle, the director of the Evidence Project at the National Security Archive has been awarded the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive (ALBA) [...]

Things are disturbingly unsettled in the world of horses at present, with horrific horse mutilations happening in the UK. Oddly enough, in parallel with those mutilations has been the spread of a neurological form of equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1), currently making its way across the western United States and threatening horse populations across the [...]

In November, the US military unveiled a hypersonic flying missile that travels five times the speed of sound, and can strike a target anywhere in the world within two hours. For the last several weeks, defense analysts and national leaders from around the world have been debating exactly what the new U.S. military capability means [...]

Today, more than ever before in the history of the world, electronics are fast playing a central role in military warefare. In 2010, the Air Force constructed a $300 million research facility at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida called the United States Reprogramming Laboratory. The ominous sounding laboratory is actually a facility intended to fine-tune [...]

This past summer, Hardie Grant Books released David Rosenberg’s Inside Pine Gap: the Spy Who Came in from the Desert. Rosenberg was employed at the Joint Australia-American Defense Facility known as Pine Gap in Alice Springs for 18 years. According to his author’s bio, Rosenberg’s expertise was in signals intelligence and how it related to [...]

According to a 1995 memorandum issued by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, in 1947, information concerning human experiments conducted during the Manhattan Project remained under wraps because release of that information was deemed “too embarrassing” to the U.S. government. Given the fact that such reasoning behind classification of information was not that uncommon [...]

One of the bravest missions proposed by a crack SAS unit during World War II was intended to occur at a French chateau in 1944. 65 elite British soldiers were involved in a plot that was proposed to kill or capture Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, one of the Nazis’ most acclaimed commanders. The raid was [...]

In the years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Washington has built a vast, complex intelligence network, with a scope unmatched anywhere else in the world. More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent nearly two years researching and producing “Top Secret America,” which chronicles the historic national security buildup that followed the 2001 terrorist [...]

China’s new stealth fighter is causing a stir in the American intelligence community. According to an analysis by the Jamestown Foundation, a conservative DC think tank, the J-20 Chinese stealth fighter will rival the United States’ best stealth fighters. Here’s what we know about the mysterious J-20 Aircraft. According to an ABC News report, some [...]

It looks strange but is one of many aircraft that could be ushering in a new era and reaching the edge of space. “The Taurus G4 NASA Racer is a technology demonstrator,” explained Tine Tomažič, leader of the Pipistrel G4 development team. “It is the first-ever electric four-place aircraft.” Unveiled at the Oshkosh Airventure event [...]