It was clear from the start that the government’s “bioterror” case against Buffalo artist Steve Kurtz was BS. Now, even federal prosecutors are admitting that the charges are bogus. Last month, FBI agents quarantined the biotech-inspired artist’s home – and confiscated his recently-dead wife’s corpse — on terror suspicions. But on Tuesday, a federal grand […]
June 2004
How can soldiers who’ve left the Army be yanked back into service? Slate explains.
For executives as Taser International, this should be the best day, ever. The company just signed a $1.8 million deal with the Pentagon the largest in Taser’s history. But the stun-gun maker can’t shake allegations that their supposedly “non-lethal” weapons have killed more than a few of their targets. “In the past nine months, five […]
While private companies are touching the edge of space, and NASA is figuring out how to get to the Moon and Mars, key parts of the Pentagon’s already-troubled space program are crashing, fast. The U.S. military relies on satellites to guide its bombs, relay its orders, and spy on its enemies. But the next wave […]
“If We Run Out of Batteries, This War is Screwed.“ That was the headline to one of my favorite embedded accounts of the Iraq invasion. And it captured a fundamental truth about today’s military: with so much warfighting gear going electronic, battles are increasingly won or lost by the side with the best power supply. […]
