A 47 page Congressional Research Bureau report Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues was written by Amy F. Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons ...

Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the “rods from god.” The rods are ...

As of 2017, the US has an estimated 4,018 nuclear weapons in either deployment or storage. The US plans to spend $1.2 trillion to modernize the nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years. Two-thirds of ...

There are few things more soothing on a Friday afternoon than watching something get sliced up on a lathe. It's a blast to zone out to whether it's metal or wood that's getting the treatment. But when ...

Lattices of microscopic tungsten rods can act as heat shields, researchers have found. Such structures may dramatically boost the efficiency of incandescent light bulbs and of thermophotovoltaic ...