Tag: nuclear

The U.S. Navy scrambled Navy F/A-18 fighter jets to intercept two Russian Tu-95 bombers as they approached the USS Ronald Reagan in the Sea of Japan on Sunday. The United States’ Nimitz class aircraft carriers, along with their accompanying battle groups that are usually composed of destroyers, cruisers, and often at least one nuclear submarine, […]

An undercover informant, who was under contract with Tenex, has been giving information to the FBI for around eight years now.  His efforts largely helped indict Vadim Mikerin’s illegal activities involving bribery and money laundering, and exposed the illicit dealings of Russia’s state-owned nuclear enterprise, Rosatom, within U.S. borders. This comes as controversy surrounds the […]

Reports of the death of Stanislav Petrov hit the news yesterday. For a man whose decision might very well have saved the planet from nuclear annihilation, it is kind of sad that the reports were four months late. Mr. Petrov died in May, but the news did not reach the press at that time. 34 […]

North Korea conducted their sixth nuclear test on Sunday, this time of a significantly more powerful weapon believed to be a two-stage, or hydrogen bomb. Because North Korea has conducted all of its nuclear testing, Sunday’s included, underground in their Punggye-ri complex, details are sparse, but intelligence gathered from seismic readings suggest that Kim’s claims […]

North Korea’s progress toward developing a nuclear arsenal capable of targeting opponents as far away as the United States has long been a subject of concern for American defense officials.  Few weapons in history can illicit such a sense of dread and foreboding, but with the potential for conflict on the Korean Peninsula reaching new […]

In July the world saw the debut of two powerful new classes of aircraft carriers, the US Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford and the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Queen Elizabeth. Both carriers push the boundaries of modern engineering and represent the first new carrier designs in decades. But they join oceans already teeming with aircraft […]

For the second day in a row Russia Tu-95H nuclear capable bombers have flown off the coast of Alaska. On Monday the US Air Force reportedly scrambled a pair of F-22 Raptor jets to intercept the Russian bombers. No aircraft were sent up in this latest incursion Tuesday night. Monday April 19 – U.S. fighter […]

The “crazy fat kid” as Senator John McCain calls him is at it again in North Korea.  The escalation in tensions on the Korean Peninsula comes right on the heels of the annual Foal Eagle exercise.  The exercise has been held once a year since the 1960’s and in part involves US and South Korean Special […]

The US Navy announced they will officially decommission and give a final farewell to the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 65) in a ceremony on February 3rd. The event is closed to the public but the Navy will post the ceremony on their Facebook page. The Enterprise played a role in many major events in US history […]

The cold war brought about some incredible technological advancements on both American and Soviet fronts.  Things that make our way of life today possible were once inventions intended to keep us one step ahead of the reds.  Indeed, we have our decades long staring match with communism to thank for things like Dynamic Random Access […]

North Korean officials lashed out Monday at efforts in the United Nations to strengthen sanctions following the North’s latest missile launches and nuclear test in September. The officials told an Associated Press Television crew in Pyongyang that sanctions targeting the nuclear and missile tests are “criminal documents” and accused the United States of orchestrating the […]

In Basic Combat Training (BCT) everyone enters and exits the gas chamber. When doing so, everyone breathes in the gas – and a deeply uncomfortable sensation ensues. It’s terrible and jarring in your first go-around. I know no one without exception enjoys the experience. Because of a single shell with remnants of a harmful chemical […]