Template:Are You Sure/January 17

"An Astrologer Casting a Horoscope", from Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia, 1617.

• ... that President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned the U.S. about the "military–industrial complex" in his farewell address?
• ... that the East German secret police developed Zersetzung, a set of psychological techniques intended to secretly destroy a victim's self-confidence, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships?
• ... that three nuclear bombs were damaged in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash in Spain, releasing plutonium over a 2-square-kilometer area, while a fourth bomb was recovered intact from the Mediterranean Sea?
• ... that Baron Zersetzung is a fictional character in the Gnomon Chronicles, and not Evil incarnate?