“McNamara’s electronic fence, which the Jasons called an “anti-infiltration barrier,” was constructed along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at a cost of $1.8 billion, roughly $12 billion in 2015. It had very little effect on the outcome of the Vietnam… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Over the next five years, DARPA’s biohybrid programs advanced at an astonishing pace. Microprocessor technology was doubling in capacity every eighteen months. By June… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“By the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Eisenhower’s test ban had failed, and the United States and the Soviet Union had both returned… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“By contrast, Dresher and Flood found that the minority of game players who refused to testify against their criminal partner were almost always of… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“To address strength and endurance issues, Goldblatt initiated a program called the Mechanically Dominant Soldier. What if soldiers could have ten times the muscle… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
