From World War II to Drone Wars: How America’s First Guided Weapons Launched the Space Age The result is a return to the kind of precision once considered revolutionary in World War II—but now available at a much...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...
How the US Military Scrambled to Recover a Missing Bomb During the Cold War If not for a Spanish fisherman who saw something and said something, the U.S. Air Force might never have recovered a missing...
'The Man Who Calculated Death': A Journalist Explores Her Hidden Ties to the Creator of Nazi Germany's V1 Flying Bomb When the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003, journalist Suzanne Rico was at the anchor desk of KCBS in Los Angeles...
The Forgotten Victims of the First Atomic Blast That ‘Oppenheimer’ Left Out May Finally Get Their Due Robert Oppenheimer and the scientists he recruited to develop the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos were well aware of the...
Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic Dreams Without Firing a Shot Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...
The Air Force Is Testing a New Ship-Killing Guided Bomb As the military shifts its attention to competing against the world's major navies, the Air Force is working on a new ship...
Air Force OKs New Stormbreaker Bomb for F-15 Strike Eagle Operations A precision-guided bomb that can go after moving targets in bad weather has been approved for use on the F-15E Strike Eagle.
Air Force Stops Releasing Airstrike Data, Citing Taliban Peace Talks U.S. Air Forces Central Command has stopped publicizing monthly reports on the number of airstrikes and bombs dropped.
Marine F-35B Drops 1,000-Pound Bombs on a Sea Target in the Pacific As one chief warrant officer put it, they showed how Marines in the Pacific can now "rain destruction like never before."
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...