These soldiers were ordered to clean up the toxic legacy of America's nuclear program, now they're dying, and their Government has abandoned them.

In an excerpt from Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight, author Joe Pappalardo explores how one errant rocket helped create the U.S.'s most important spaceport.

China has disclosed the first images of secret hypersonic strike aircraft that are being developed to deliver warheads through U.S. missile defenses. By Bill Gertz.

Gurvan Le Meur was piloting the 37,500-tonne oil tanker Atria toward the Russian port of Novorossiysk when something odd happened. His ship disappeared. By Muhammad Darwish.

As tensions rise between the United States and North Korea, an elite squad of Air Force officers wait for the call the world hopes never comes. By Danielle McNally, with Photographs by Tyler Joe. (Sept. 8, 2017)

More than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades discovered on board the freighter named the Jie Shun which the hermit kingdom had decorated with deceptive Cambodian colours. Despot leader Kim Jong-un’s cargo was stopped in its tracks when the US warned Cairo about the incoming ship. An investigation launched by the United Nations found that Pyongyang had made nice with Egyptian business executives who had ordered millions of dollars worth of North Korean weaponry.

The Trump administration is preparing to make it easier for American gunmakers to sell small arms (including assault rifles and ammunition) to foreign buyers, according to senior US officials. Aides to President Donald Trump are completing a plan to shift oversight of international non-military firearms sales from the State Department to the Commerce Department, four officials told Reuters.

The U.S. Department of Defense is reportedly still funneling billions of dollars’ worth of Soviet-era weaponry to anti-Islamic State groups in Syria, with questionable oversight. In a joint report published Tuesday, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) allege that the Pentagon has given up to $2.2 billion worth of weapons to groups like the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG.

The concept would be familiar to anyone who has watched the Spiderman movies.

Heckler & Koch, whose weapons have killed 2 million people, vows to end sales to warzones and countries falling short of corruption and democracy standards.

The news Sunday morning that North Korea had launched what appeared to be its sixth nuclear test and most powerful one to date is troubling enough. But a statement from the rogue regime took things to a whole new level. The North said it had tested an H-bomb that was “a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals.”

North Korea has said it needs the capability to launch intercontinental missiles at the heart of the United States to prevent an invasion. The North is ready to give the United States a "severe lesson" with its strategic nuclear force if it takes military action against it, it said in a statement to a regional meeting in Manila.

Satellite images taken between September and June have shown increased thermal activity at North Korea's main nuclear plant, a Washington-based think tank says. It's a worrying new development for the US and its allies.

While the latest tests gather scientific data, the USAF is looking for companies could build an actual weapon.

Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads. By Patrick Malone.

Modern missiles make them vulnerable. A $13 billion price tag makes them expensive. New technology may make them unnecessary. By Justin Bachman.

As a former intelligence soldier who now sells drones for a living, I can tell you that this problem is bigger than almost anyone realizes. By Brett Velicovich.

Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) is in the final stages of negotiating a deal worth more than $37 billion to sell a record 440 F-35 fighter jets to a group of 11 nations including the United States, two people familiar with the talks said.

The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.

Assessing the capability of North Korean Cold War-era artillery and its danger to Seoul.