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Nicholas Jackson - Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

Picture of the Day: Secret Missile Launch Off California Coast

By Nicholas Jackson
Nov 9 2010, 12:43 PM ET Comment

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A missile was launched 35 miles off the coast of California last night, but nobody in the military will tell Wired's Noah Shachtman who was responsible. "Several different offices are looking into it," Anthony Roake, a spokesman for Air Force Space Command, told Shachtman. "I'm reaching blanks with the folks I've talked to."

The launch was captured by a local CBS television crew around 5 p.m.

Via Wired.



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