Anduril founder and Peter Thiel protégé Palmer Luckey is leading a new defense tech boom in Southern California, backed by billions from his first company.
And then there are the nuclear missile silos. “I own a lot of ICBM sites all over the United States.” Corporate filings show that a decommissioned Atlas ICBM silo in rural Saranac, N.Y., is owed by Black Omen LLC, which is in turn managed by Fiendlord’s Keep LLC, whose chief executive is listed as Palmer Luckey.