Midwest Flooding Highlights National Security Risk Posed By Climate Change

Margery A. Beck, Ellen Knickmeyer and Robert Burns, Chicago Tribune
Fri, 03/22/2019 - 5:47am

The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military's Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipment, munitions and dozens of aircraft. Days into the flooding, muddy water was still...

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