“If a mentally superhuman race ever develops, its members will resemble Johnny von Neumann,” Edward Teller once said. “If you enjoy thinking, your brain develops. And that is what von Neumann did. He enjoyed the functioning of his brain.” — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann saw great promise in a redesign of the ENIAC computer’s memory. He believed there was a way to turn the computer into an “electronic brain” capable of storing not just data and instructions, as was the case with… — 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
“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Poindexter’s background was in submarines, and there was an analogy here, he told Tether. Submarines emit sound signals as they move through the sea.… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
