Interesting Engineering

Everything about America’s next nuclear cruise missile with a 1,500-mile range

The AGM-181A LRSO is the USAF's new nuclear cruise missile. Here's how it works, why it matters, and how it fits in US ...
Al Jazeera on MSN

What is Japan’s new intelligence agency, and why is Tokyo building it?

Japan plans to launch its first centralised intelligence body with help from Western allies.

Russia and America Are Rediscovering the Limits of Nuclear Weapons

H enry Kissinger often said that nuclear arms are “weapons in search of a doctrine.” After the Cold War, some strategists ...

Nuclear fallout gave her cancer. Now she’s a dogged voice for America’s downwinders

Expanded federal law says these states and parts of others were downwind, but many don’t know they could be compensated ...
CounterPunchOpinion

Why “Communism” and “Hot” Mean More Than They Say

Trump's diatribe against communism assumes that the United States won the Cold War both strategically and ideologically. If ...

There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away.

After successfully completing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal), the ...

The Salem witch trials explained: How fear, fungus and panic led to the deaths of 19 innocent people

In the winter of 1692, a nine-year-old girl and her eleven-year-old cousin began having violent fits inside a parsonage in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

As the Ocean Warms, a ‘Cold Blob’ in the Atlantic Has Puzzled Scientists. It Might Be a Warning Sign About a Key Current System

A patch of water south of Greenland and Iceland has cooled by nearly 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since 1900. A new study suggests ...
Opinion

Why U.S. AI Restrictions Could Give China an Unexpected Advantage Following the Android Playbook

CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa explained a counterintuitive thesis on the AI cold war in a recent CNBC segment. Paradoxically, she argued that U.S. efforts to wall off access to the most advanced American AI ...

What makes a ‘heat dome’ and what does it mean?

“The concept of a heat dome really means that the air in this region is so warm, and we know that warm air expands,” said ...
AOL

15 Facts About the American Revolutionary War That Help Explain U.S. Independence

More than 250 years ago, the United States began a difficult journey toward independence, a goal that would forever change the course of world history. The adoption of the Declaration of Independence ...
The New York Times

Myanmar’s Civil War Started With a Coup 5 Years Ago. Here’s the Impact.

The Southeast Asian nation recently experienced its highest monthly civilian death toll since the war began in 2021. By Hannah Beech Reporting from Anyar, Myanmar The civil war in Myanmar has churned ...