Welcome to Bunker Talk. This is our weekend open discussion for readers to weigh in on everything we did and did not get to this week. Use this space to trade notes on headlines, flag developments we might have missed, or bring up anything else on your mind.
In short, it is an off-topic thread.
This week’s caption reads:
The control room of the Project Mercury Mission Control Center, at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida, 1961. (Photo by NASA/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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About the editor
Tyler focuses on military technology, strategy, and foreign policy, and continues to lead coverage in the defense and national security arena.
He has recently followed developments such as the Mar-a-Lago air defense and broader changes in U.S. defense postures.