Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...

On the Tuesday, February 10, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: For the first time in over half a century, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers ...

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Back in the 1960s, the U.S. Army secretly planned to build a network of tunnels under Greenland’s ice sheet to ...

Nuclear-capable DF-5C missiles in Beijing on Sept. 3. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) We all sense that the world is entering a more uncertain phase. Alliances feel shakier, trade is fragmenting, and ...

The last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States expires Thursday, ushering in an era without caps set by the world’s largest nuclear powers. Without the New START ...

Artificial intelligence has swept the U.S. into a high-stakes quest for dominance that has wide-ranging implications. The intense rivalry isn't solely a battle for the best technology and most ...

A renewal of nuclear weapons testing exposes mounting risks, collapsing treaties and a new era of proliferation shaping the second Cold War. July 30, 2020: Activists in costumes as United States ...

Some forty years ago, the U.S. launched a series of secret satellites, designed to spy on the country’s adversaries. Launched between March 1971 and February 1987, those satellite missions, nicknamed ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Freezing temperatures and long-term power outages can quickly create dangerous health situations. More states are requiring insurers to cover non-opioid pain meds Surgeon general ...

The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency overseeing the US government’s fleet of spy satellites, has declassified a decades-old program used to eavesdrop on the Soviet Union’s military ...