Collaborate Disseminate
On November 5th, the United States launched an LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Roughly 30 minutes later the three warheads onboard struck their targets …read more Continue reading Minuteman ICBM Launch Tests Triple Warheads
Don’t pack your bags for the trip to exoplanet K2-18b quite yet — it turns out that the James Webb Space Telescope may not have detected signs of life there …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 12, 2024
The date was September 26, 1983. A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces sat at his command station in Serpukhov-15 as sirens blared, indicating nuclear missiles had been …read more Continue reading The False Alarm That Nearly Sparked Nuclear War
Westech International provides maintenance for the Minuteman III nuclear-missile program and runs programs for multiple branches of the military. Continue reading U.S. Nuclear Contractor Hit with Maze Ransomware, Data Leaked
Longtime followers of [Ken Shirriff’s] work are accustomed to say asking “Where does he get such wonderful toys?”. This time around he’s laid bare the guidance computer from a Titan missile. To be specific, this is the computer that would have been found in the Titan II, an intercontinental ballistic …read more
Continue reading Ken Shirriff Unfolds a Nuclear Missile Guidance Computer with Impressive Memory
The disks are part of the command centres that run the country’s nuclear missile deterrent on behalf of SACCS. Continue reading US nuclear weapons command finally ditches 8-inch floppies
In the fall of 1957, it seemed as though the United States’ space program would never get off the ground. The USSR had launched Sputnik in October, and this cemented their place in history as the first nation in space. If that weren’t bad enough, they put Sputnik 2 into …read more
Continue reading Mary Sherman Morgan, Rocket Fuel Mixologist
With the destruction of the Microsat-R reconnaissance satellite on March 27th, India became the fourth country in history to successfully hit an orbiting satellite with a surface-launched weapon. While Microsat-R was indeed a military satellite, there was no hostile intent; the spacecraft was one of India’s own, launched earlier in …read more
Continue reading Humanity Creates a Cloud of Space Garbage, Again
The F-35 jet is an ever-expanding boondoggle, and now the Pentagon wants it to shoot down nukes. Continue reading Now the F-35 Is Also an Anti-Nuke Weapon
With a highly publicized test firing and pledge by President Vladimir Putin that it will soon be deployed to frontline units, Russia’s Avangard hypersonic weapon has officially gone from a secretive development program to an inevitability. The first weapon of its type to enter into active service, it’s capable of delivering a payload to any spot on the planet at speeds up to Mach 27 while remaining effectively unstoppable by conventional missile defense systems because of its incredible speed and enhanced maneuverability compared to traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
In a statement made after the successful test of Avangard, which …read more