Background In 1958, the CIA completed the below report about its role in the event of a nuclear war. The Black Vault saw references to this document in other declassified CIA documents, but not the report itself. In August of 2019, a FOIA request was filed to the CIA for the record, and in October of 2020, it was released. You can find the report below. Document Archive Role of CIA in Nuclear War, 1958 [38 Pages, 12.5MB] Comments on Role of CIA in Nuclear War, 1958 [2 Pages, 1MB] – This document was released in 2000 by the CIA,…
Author: John Greenewald
The following is NASA’s Press Release 20-103. It is archived here for reference. NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. This well-preserved, ancient asteroid, known as Bennu, is currently more than 200 million miles (321 million kilometers) from Earth. Bennu offers scientists a window into the early solar system as it was first taking shape billions of years ago and flinging ingredients that could have helped seed life…
Background The western world’s leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of a detrimental global climatic change. The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin projects that the earth’s climate is returning to that of the neo-boreal era (l600-18S0)-an era of drought, famine, and political unrest in the western world. A responsibility of the Intelligence Community is to assess a nation’s capability and stability under varying internal or external pressures. The assessments normally include an analysis of…
Background The President’s Daily Brief (PDB), sometimes referred to as the President’s Daily Briefing or the President’s Daily Bulletin, is a top-secret document produced and given each morning to the President of the United States, and is also distributed to a small number of top-level US officials who are approved by the President, and includes highly classified intelligence analysis, information about CIA covert operations and reports from the most sensitive US sources or those shared by allied intelligence agencies. The PDB is also provided to the President-elect of the United States, between election day and inauguration. In September of 2017,…
Background The following is from Wikipedia to help explain the background: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. It struck down many U.S. state and federal abortion laws, and prompted an ongoing national debate in the United States about whether and to what extent abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, what methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional…