Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls.
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David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Parties have mostly voted in blocks on major issues in recent years, with small numbers of defectors increasingly rare.
Peppering dashes of humor into its brew of foreboding, the movie views the rise of an authoritarian movement through its effect on a family of unbelievers, covering a five-year period that begins in celebration and ends somewhere very different.
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