{
  "id": 1770143,
  "title": "Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-the-lonely-voice-of-ted-postol",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-18T18:00:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Naked Capitalism",
    "slug": "naked-capitalism",
    "url": "https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/08/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-the-lonely-voice-of-ted-postel.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "For more than three decades, MIT physicist Ted Postol has challenged official claims about U.S. missile-defense performance. His remarkable isolation points toward a deeper problem: the defense establishment generates abundant technical criticism but too often fails to give that criticism enough leverage to stop troubled weapons programs before enormous commitments are made.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}