January 17

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

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In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... 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?

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