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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol

naked capitalism · 1h ago · 🇺🇸 United States
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol

For more than three decades, MIT physicist Ted Postol has challenged official claims about U.S. missile-defense performance. His remarkable isolation points toward a deeper problem: the defense establishment generates abundant technical criticism but too often fails to give that criticism enough leverage to stop troubled weapons programs before enormous commitments are made.

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