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 ...

As global interest in nuclear weapons surges, Pakistan's recent conflict with India reveals their stark limits—failing to ...

Scores of researchers and scientific groups have been warning that research toward the creation of mirror life should not be conducted. Not everyone is convinced.

Protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks means confronting a mismatch between the threat and the government’s ...

Renewed talks with Pyongyang require more than impulsive concessions. To draw Kim back to the table, Washington must ...

My film would be a documentary, meant to demonstrate that, while the world was off watching killer robot movies (and ...

New study finds Earth system models could be overestimating future carbon storage in forests by up to 30 percent.

As the last surviving US servicemen who witnessed the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reach their 100s, their harrowing ...

A group of hungry visitors arrives at a village and asks for food. When the villagers refuse to share what they have, the visitors fill a pot of water and throw in several stones and talk up a tasty ...