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Large Insect Crashes Air Force Missile Truck
5:09AM Jesus Diaz | Surprisingly, this is not the first time a US Air Force missile truck has crashed this year. However, it is the first time they probably needed to call SHIELD or The Avengers to fight the crash culprit: “a large insect”. More »
Gadgets
Dirty Bomb Emergency Kit Appeals To The Paranoid In Me
12:10PM Jesus Diaz | When I was a kid I saw The Day After, which left me having nightmares about nuclear bombs exploding in the horizon, and looting supermarkets for chocolate bars. Maybe that’s why I’m itching to buy this dirty bomb emergency kit. More »
Weapons
How A Soviet Doomsday Master Missile Looks And Works
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | Yesterday we learnt that the Soviets still have a working doomsday system in place. This is an SS-17 ICBM master missile, which are launched first. Once they are in the skies, they activate the launch for all the Russian nukes. More »
Software
You May NOT Use iTunes To Design, Manufacture or Produce Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Weapons
9:40AM Jason Chen | Are we clear on this? Steve Jobs doesn’t want to be seeing any nerve gas canisters with DRM-free iTunes Plus support. [Gear Live] More »
Weapons
Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms
4:38PM Jesus Diaz | Good news people! The US army has confirmed that Israel has their very own circumcised version of Dr Manhattan’s schlong. Sources estimate a collection of 200 to 400 nuclear warheads. More »
Weapons
US Air Force Abandoned Nuclear Bomb in Greenland
10:00PM Jesus Diaz | The US government plotted to hide the fact that they were constantly flying nuclear-armed B-52 bombers over Greenland during the 1960s, the BBC has discovered in a recent investigation. The operation, called Chrome Dome, was designed to instantly respond to the Soviet Union if the latter launched a nuclear missile attack against Thule, a US Air Force base strategically placed near the North Pole. The Pentagon believed that this could potentially start a full-scale thermonuclear war, so they kept the birds in the sky at all times as a deterrent against Moscow. It was a “good” plan, until one of them crashed on January 21 1968. More »
Weapons
Pentagon Retrofits Minuteman III ICBM Silos with B-Plug Kits
10:00AM Jesus Diaz | If you thought the good old days of living under the threat of global thermonuclear war were over, think again, because the US military keeps shining those Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles just in case the new and coming Chinese aircraft carrier battle groups get funny over the Pacific Ocean. But fear not, because that doesn’t mean more missiles. They are just making the silos more secure by installing something called Fast Rising B-Plug Kits in the silos. The obvious questions are: Do they mean they weren’t secure enough before? And more importantly, what the heck is a Fast Rising B-Plug? More »
Phones
