Author: Michael

Back to the future – the U.S. Army operated eight nuclear reactors until 1974 during the initial Golden Age of Atomic Power

Did you know the U.S. Army used to have a nuclear power plant in the Panama Canal Zone?
Or that Ft. Belvoir, Virginia had an operating nuclear power plant until 1974?
During the Atomic Era, nuclear power was the future.
Then it became evil and vilified by the Democrats and cause celebre movies by Jane Fonda and the dismal propaganda piece, “The China Syndrome”.

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Cyber operations have become a defining feature of modern conflict, a front line that shapes the contours of global power competition. Yet despite daily headlines about Chinese hackers breaching defense contractors, Russian ransomware crippling pipelines, and Iranian cyber operatives probing our critical infrastructure, there remains a persistent and increasingly dangerous gap between America’s strategic cyber ambitions and the way these capabilities are integrated into warfighting.

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