in 2011, truthout featured a story by leopold about religious material used by the us air force in the training of officers on the ethics of nuclear war. the material, obtained by the military religious freedom foundation from freedom of information act requests, includes slides quoting the bible supporting the act of war and characters from the bible fighting what the slides refer to as just wars, as well as quotes from former nazi wernher von braun. the air force removed the material from its training regime a day after leopold's story was published, with david smith, chief of public affairs of air education and training command, telling leopold (the material) "has been taken out of the curriculum and is being reviewed," and "the commander reviewed it and decided we needed to have a good hard look at it and make sure it reflected views of modern society."