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A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
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Boeing’s Autonomous Fighter Jet Will Fly Over the Australian Outback
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Nuclear Weapons Inspection: Encryption System Could Thwart Spies and Expose Hoaxes
A new nuclear weapons inspection technology could enhance inspectors’ ability to verify that a nuclear warhead has been dismantled without compromising state secrets behind the weapon’s design. This new non-proliferation tool, its inventors argue, would greatly assist the often delicate dance of nuclear weapons inspectors—who want to know they haven’t been hoaxed but are also sensitive […]
How the US Military’s Latest Surveillance Technology Was Inspired by Hollywood
A new type of aerial surveillance, enabled by rapid advances in imaging and computing technology, is quietly replacing traditional drone video cameras. Wide-area motion imaging (WAMI) aims to capture an entire city within a single image, giving operators a God-like view in which they can follow multiple incidents simultaneously, and track people or vehicles backward in […]
US Nuclear Weapons Expert on Low-Yield Warheads, Stockpile Stewardship, and Plutonium Pit Production
Earlier this year, at a sprawling complex in the Texas Panhandle, a new type of nuclear weapon began rolling off the production line and into the United States arsenal. The ballistic missile warheads are low-yield and relatively small, and they reflect a growing push by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons program after decades […]
Maiden Flight of Sikorsky-Boeing's Defiant Helicopter
Several companies are developing helicopters that could replace the U.S. Army’s aging Black Hawk fleet in the coming decades. One of those futuristic aircrafts, Sikorsky-Boeing’s Defiant, took its first test flight two weeks ago. The Defiant is based on Sikorsky’s experimental X2 technology, which holds the record for being the fastest helicopter technology in the world. […]
Pentagon Warns Silicon Valley About Aiding Chinese Military
President Donald Trump and his top U.S. military adviser met with Google’s CEO about concerns that Silicon Valley’s AI collaborations in China may benefit the Chinese military. Such worries reflect awareness of how certain technologies developed for civilian purposes can also provide military advantages in the strategic competition playing out between the United States and China. The meeting comes after General […]
60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys
This year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turned 60. To celebrate, DARPA held a conference in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights was an exhibit hall full of both current DARPA programs as well as unique artifacts from DARPA’s history. We’ve put together a gallery of the most interesting things we saw […]