And of course they have to throw in the various partisan quips here and there, because of course they just can't help themselves, of course they have to try to score their political points.
Even the times in the article when they're referring to actual studies that exist in the real world, they can't even be bothered to name the studies. No sources needed, no evidence needed, just some anonymous WSJ "investigator" says something is true.
1.) In the 1960s, the Air Force developed a top-secret device power enough to simulate the EMP of a nuclear blast, i.e. some form of Non-nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse device that wouldn't be developed into a weapon for a few more decades. Rather than a controlled scientific test, they then decided to secretly drive it up to an operating missile base. They proceed to set it up on a 60 foot tall portable stand without anyone at the site noticing. I guess people at the site had their AirPods in for hours while giant generators run to charge the banks of capacitors necessary to run something that huge. No one noticed anything of this happening until it was hovering over the gate, they had their rifles pointed at it, and the mad scientists behind this plan were justified in their fear that our missile launch facilities were vulnerable to EMP.
2.) In the 1960s, a UFO disabled a missile at a launch facility.
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