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The White House Military Office Army aide was on “Football” duty this morning for President Biden’s visit to 10 Downing Street in London. The ~45-lb. satchel accompanies Biden 24/7, enabling him to authorize the use of any of our ~1,770 deployed nuclear weapons—up to 900 on alert—at any time.
10:44 AM - Jul 10, 2023
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A photographer with Hiroshima’s Chugoku Shimbun newspaper photographed the White House Military Office Space Force aide carrying the nuclear “Football” in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday, about 500 meters from where “Little Boy” exploded in 1945. https://www.hiroshimapeace...
12:31 AM - May 20, 2023
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Happy Cold War-era Mother’s Day from AC Spark Plug (1958)!

“This is the Mrs. behind the Missile. On these two pages, you will read how she has solved one of the greatest problems in the development of guided missiles today.”

(Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with missiles)
02:19 PM - May 14, 2023
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OTD in 1955—in conjunction with the 29-kt Apple-2 nuclear test at the Nevada Proving Ground 65 mi. NW of Las Vegas—the Federal Civil Defense Administration conducted Operation Cue to study the blast’s effects on, among other things, typical American homes. https://www.youtube.com/wa...
Operation Cue (1955) - YouTube

Eerie nuclear tests on houses and dummies at the Nevada Test Site.We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks...

12:06 PM - May 05, 2023
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80 years ago today—two years before V-E Day and Nazi Germany’s defeat—the Manhattan Project’s Military Policy Committee eliminated Germany as the target of the still unproven atomic bomb, selecting Japan’s fleet at Truk Lagoon as the best target. https://ieer.org/news/choo...
11:55 AM - May 05, 2023
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It’s Tax Day, a good time to note that in inflation-adjusted dollars, the United States has spent more than $10 trillion and counting on nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs since 1940, the third largest government expenditure after all non-nuclear military spending and Social Security.
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