14 Secrets the Military Doesn't Want You to Know
14.
Race-based Chemical Testing
It's no secret that racial minorities have had a long and often complex history with
the United States military.
During World War II, however, minority soldiers were singled out for testing of dangerous
chemical compounds.
The scientists involved in the tests assumed that soldiers of different races would react
differently to the chemicals, and so divided test groups up according to race.
Incredibly, chemicals as harsh as mustard gas (a compound used in early chemical warfare)
were administered to as many as 60,000 US soldiers.
Decades later, surviving test subjects were awarded disability benefits by the Department
of Veterans Affairs.
13.
Stuxnet
In 2010, Iran's developing nuclear program began to experience an unusually high rate
of centrifuge failures, delaying progress and increasing the cost of the country's
attempts to refine uranium.
The cause of these failures was later revealed to be a computer worm now known as Stuxnet.
The worm was capable of causing physical damage to centrifuge equipment by causing it to operate
outside of its normal parameters while preventing warnings from being sent to technicians.
Officially, the program's creators remain unknown.
Many experts, however, believe the Stuxnet worm to have been a joint project between
American and Israeli military and intelligence branches intended to destroy the Iranian program
from the inside.
12.
Underground Supercomplex in Russia
In a remote region of Russia's Ural Mountains, a gigantic underground complex intended for
unknown usage has been under construction for decades.
The site, known as Yamantau Mountain, has been described by Russian officials as being
everything from an ore-processing facility to a gigantic storage warehouse.
Yamantau Mountain may also be a bunker site intended to house key members of Russia's
leadership in the event of a full-scale world war.
US officials have generally concluded that the site is a large-scale command post.
Why the complex should be so large and why it has been under construction for so many
years, however, remain unanswered.
11.
Official Abu Ghraib Authorization
In 2004, international media began to cover a program of extreme torture at Iraq's now-infamous
Abu Ghraib prison.
Officially, the activities carried out at the prison complex were illegal and never
sanctioned by the US military.
In the aftermath of the scandal, however, The New Yorker spoke to a series of military
and CIA officials on condition of anonymity.
The contents of those interviews, published in the magazine's May issue of that year,
detailed a highly clandestine operation sanctioned by the Pentagon to devise and implement the
torture techniques that were used against prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
This operation, known by the code-name Copper Green, took place with the full knowledge
and support of then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
10.
Performance Enhancing Drug Research
In order to keep soldiers at optimal performance while performing the physically demanding
tasks of training and combat, the US military has partnered with scientific institutions
around the world to find new pharmaceutical methods for mentally and physically enhancing
soldiers.
A key part of this research has involved stimulating mitochondrial activity in order to keep soldiers
from becoming fatigued at their normal rate.
Some solutions have already passed early test phases and are being administered to human
test subjects, though none have yet become a standard part of the military's physical
training program.
9.
Novichok Agents
In modern chemical warfare, nerve gases, primarily VX, are among the most dangerous weaponized
compounds.
Despite the extremely harmful nature of these chemicals, it is possible that the Soviet
military developed compounds that were up to eight times more dangerous than standard
nerve gases during a series of secret experiments in the 1970s.
These hyper-lethal nerve gases, known as novichok agents, were never used in combat.
8.
A Classified Space Shuttle
Starting in 1999, noted aerospace firm Boeing began working with the United States Air Force
to produce a miniaturized reusable space vehicle, today known as the X-37B.
Although the shuttle's existence has never been any great secret, its use and missions
remain highly classified.
Four documented flights of the X-37B are known to have occurred.
The Air Force maintains that the vehicle is used for space testing and technological research,
although it has been suggested that the X-37B could be a weaponized space vehicle.
7.
Cobalt Nuclear Torpedo
In November of 2015, Russian state television accidentally showed a set of plans being viewed
by a high-ranking general in a brief shot.
Upon closer inspection, the plans that were being studied were for a massive nuclear torpedo
designed to destroy coastal cities or military installations while contaminating surrounding
areas with a high dose of radiation.
The project, known as Status-6, is believed to have been designed to carry a nuclear cobalt
warhead.
After the initial television leak, no further information about the project was ever disclosed.
6.
Top-secret Indian Nuclear Facility
In 2012, construction began on a site in southwestern India that could, when fully operational,
revolutionize the country's nuclear program.
Although India has had nuclear capabilities since 1974, its nuclear program has always
been fairly limited.
The huge new facility, located near the city of Challakere, is believed to have the potential
to massively increase India's stockpile of weapons-grade uranium and allow for production
of a large arsenal of high-yield nuclear weapons.
Included in these enhanced nuclear capabilities, according to experts, would be the ability
to create devastating hydrogen bombs.
The construction of the facility, which has been described as a "nuclear city," drew
criticism in India for its completely unannounced installation in the lands of a nomadic tribe
called the Lambani, which upset their traditional ways of life.
5.
Miniaturized Spy Satellites
In 2006, the United States launched two miniaturized satellites capable of inspecting other satellites
without detection.
Three years later, these two satellites were used to inspect a known US spy satellite that
had experienced a malfunction after being placed into orbit.
Although the operation proved to be a useful test of the miniaturized satellites' ability
to gather information about damaged spacecraft, it was also troubling to other nations that
rely heavily on space surveillance for intelligence gathering.
If the two miniaturized satellites were able to approach a US spy satellite and gather
useful information about its workings and condition, the same could just as easily be
done to the satellites used by any other nation.
For the first time, spy satellites to spy on other spy satellites became a serious concern
in the international intelligence community.
Despite the worrisome nature of the technological ability to do so, no confirmed instance of
such surveillance on another nation's spacecraft is known to have occurred.
4.
The Little Green Men
No, this doesn't have anything to do with aliens.
During Russia's 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the beginning of an ongoing
separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine, the popular title "little green men" was given
to Russian special operations forces active in Ukraine.
Officially, Russia never sent troops into eastern Ukraine to support the separatists.
Unofficially, however, several brigades of Russia's elite Spetsnaz troops were deployed
to support, supply and train the rebels, effectively amounting to a small-scale invasion of the
easternmost regions of the country.
3.
The Aurora Aircraft
Rumors of next-generation aircraft under development by the US military are fairly common, but
at least one of these projects is known to have received funding from the United States
government.
The Aurora project, widely believed to have been conceived as a replacement for the SR-71
Blackbird, was officially allocated $455 million in federal funding beginning in 1985.
Though speculation has persisted ever since, the Aurora aircraft has consistently been
dismissed as a myth by military and government officials.
However there have been many claimed sightings by people in America as well as in the UK.
Also there have been measurements of unusual sonic boom patterns that many attribute to
the Aurora.
2.
Combat Trauma Training
To train the medics that soldiers rely on for battlefield medical help, the US military
has historically used animals to simulate wounded soldiers in training exercises.
This practice has raised extensive controversy among animal-rights groups, as the animals
used in such training scenarios have very real wounds inflicted upon them for the exercises.
Pigs and goats, the most common animals used for this medical training, can be burned,
shot, or even have limbs intentionally amputated in order to simulate the kinds of wounds medics
are likely to encounter on a real-life battlefield.
The military has taken some steps to phase out this controversial practice, but has so
far failed to abandon simulations using live animals altogether.
1.
Project MKUltra
One of the most infamous projects in military and intelligence history, Project MKUltra
was a highly classified program run for over a decade under the supervision of the CIA.
The goal of the project was to research the effects of various drugs, hypnosis, and other
mind-altering techniques in order to discover useful means of mentally controlling human
beings.
The program included experiments with torture techniques and high-dose usage of LSD.
Much of the testing was conducted at hospitals, prisons and mental institutions, often on
human test subjects who were not informed of the project and who did not consent to
participate in it.
The full extent of the illegal experimentation sanctioned under MKUltra will likely never
be known, as the majority of the project's records were intentionally destroyed by the
CIA.
What is known of the project was revealed by later Senate hearings and a civilian Freedom
of Information Act request filed in 1977.
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