Scientists showed recently that AI can be used to produce novel viruses. We need to build a layered system of defense before ...

The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real ...

Drone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state ...

Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore. How much does war, and the preparation and recovery from it, contribute to the climate crisis? Nobody knows, because ...

Since President Eisenhower more-or-less invented the term military-industrial complex, US defense spending has grown, dramatically in some eras, leveling off a bit in others, but overall heading ...

The US military has a long, complicated relationship with climate change. Beginning in the mid-1950s, it paid for research ...

Local governments negotiating data center deals lack guidance because experienced communities are unwilling to share lessons ...

In September, the city council of Westminster, Colorado voted not to fund a pedestrian bridge and underpass at the Rocky Flats site due to concerns about residual soil contamination from plutonium and ...

Leroy Fadem volunteered for service in the US Navy early in March 1942, about a week after his 21st birthday. Initially, he was assigned as a torpedo officer and gunnery officer on a destroyer, the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Undark. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In July 2012, a renegade American businessman, Russ George, took a ship off the ...

Michal Wyrebkowski is an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a researcher at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

After President Trump announced the start of a so-called Golden Dome missile defense project early this week, major press coverage was largely matter-of-fact and relatively unperturbed. Some news ...