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A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

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A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories The Soviet Union devoted considerable resources to spreading false stories. But now disinformation is regarded as an important aspect of Russian military doctrine, and it's disseminated with far greater sophistication and volume than ever before.

Article of the day for August 29, 2016

The Article of the day for August 29, 2016 is 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident . In a nuclear weapons incident on 29–30 August 2007, United States Air Force warheads were not protected by mandatory security precautions. Six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto an Air Force B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base. The nuclear warheads in the missiles were supposed to have been removed before taking the missiles from their storage bunker. The missiles with the nuclear warheads were not reported missing and remained mounted to the aircraft at both Minot and Barksdale for 36 hours. After an investigation, four Air Force commanders were relieved of their commands, and nuclear weapons operations at Minot were suspended. In 2008, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff of the Air Force General T. Michael Moseley were forced to re...

mandylion: Word of the day for August 29, 2016

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Word of the day is mandylion : (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) often Mandylion: the Image of Edessa, a holy relic consisting of a piece of cloth upon which an image of the face of Jesus Christ had been miraculously imprinted without human intervention (that is, an acheiropoieton); an artistic depiction of this relic. The feast of the mandylion, which commemorates its translation from Edessa to Constantinople in 944, is observed by the Eastern Orthodox Church on this day (August 16 of the Julian calendar).

A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

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A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

Picture of the day for August 29, 2016

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Siproeta stelenes is a brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae found throughout Central and northern South America. Adults feed on flower nectar, rotting fruit, dead animals, and bat dung. This species is sometimes known as the malachite, named after a mineral which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's wings. Photograph taken in the butterfly house on Mainau island, Lake Constance, Germany..

Picture of the day for August 29, 2016

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Picture of the day on August 29, 2016: Siproeta stelenes is a brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae found throughout Central and northern South America. Adults feed on flower nectar, rotting fruit, dead animals, and bat dung. This species is sometimes known as the malachite, named after a mineral which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's wings. Photograph taken in the butterfly house on Mainau island, Lake Constance, Germany.

Article of the day for August 29, 2016

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Article of the day is 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W