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This Plane Is Going to Cost $1.4 Trillion. At Least.
There has been a lot of talk about how the F-35 fighter jet program, already the most costly ever, is going to top $1 trillion. Defense expert Winslow Wheeler looks at the numbers and comes up with a cost of $1.4 trillion and rising.
Image from james_gordon_los_angeles

Chart: Contributions from military members to presidential candidates. Not quite what you expected, eh?

Nuclear Truckers: Warheads on 18 Wheels
Big rigs with bombs are secretly cruising the interstate near you. But how safe are they from terrorists or accidents? To find out, we sent Adam Weinstein to investigate…and haul ass after one on a long stretch of South Carolina lowcountry highway. YEEHAW.
(Plus, later today, we’ll share the list of headlines for this story that we rejected. They’re oh so good. And bad.)