Annie Jacobsen

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic…

— Annie Jacobsen

One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area…

— Annie Jacobsen

In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time…

— Annie Jacobsen

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs…

— Annie Jacobsen

“I am here to urge [you] that all must recognize that simulation is fundamental to readiness for war,”

— Annie Jacobsen

Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it…

— Annie Jacobsen

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

— Annie Jacobsen

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War,…

— Annie Jacobsen

The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in…

— Annie Jacobsen

“What might sound like science fiction elsewhere in the world at DARPA was future science.”

— Annie Jacobsen

“By the end of January 1946, 160 Nazi scientists had been secreted into America. The single largest group was comprised of the…

— Annie Jacobsen

“What we have in mind for that agency,” McElroy told lawmakers, was an entity that would handle “all satellite and space research…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The Operation Hardtack II nuclear test series would prove even bigger than Plumbbob, in terms of the number of tests. From September…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The past is a foreign country.” —L. P. Hartley”

— Annie Jacobsen

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Christofilos’s theoretical Astrodome-like shield was the hoped-for result of exploding a large number of nuclear weapons in space as a means of…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Scalable Social Network Analysis. The SSNA would monitor telephone calls, conference calls, and ATM withdrawals, but it also sought to develop a…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Dayton had no civilized culture.”

— Annie Jacobsen

“We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds…

— Annie Jacobsen

“McNamara’s electronic fence, which the Jasons called an “anti-infiltration barrier,” was constructed along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at a cost of…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Just a decade before, in the wake of the Vietnam War and with his agency’s budget slashed, Stephen Lukasik had appealed to…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Von Neumann saw great promise in a redesign of the ENIAC computer’s memory. He believed there was a way to turn the…

— Annie Jacobsen

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Clandestine Service, tells us a story about the building at the center of the Pentagon courtyard, which is now a food court…

— Annie Jacobsen