Media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system omit that one of CSIS’s top donors, Lockheed Martin, is THAAD’s primary contractor. By Adam Johnson.

Louise Erdrich on Postcommodity’s Ceremonial Transformation of LRAD.

Modernization, or first-strike capability? By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol.

Since 1983, TLAM has been the DOD’s favorite way to reach out and touch someone.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday Russia was willing to discuss reducing nuclear weapons, news agency RIA reported. "We are ready to discuss the possibility of further reducing nuclear capacity, but only if all factors are taken into account and not only the number of strategic offensive weapons," Lavrov was quoted as saying. He said it was "absolutely clear the time had not yet come" for eliminating all nuclear arms, news agency TASS reported.

Several countries are developing weapons based on nanotechnology that could unleash attacks with mini-nukes and insect-like lethal bots.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.

Ars tours the training facility the military is using to teach humans how to help robots help us.

The nuclear icebreaker Lenin, the pride and joy of the Soviet Union's Arctic great game, lies at perpetual anchor in the frigid water here. A relic of the Cold War, it is now a museum.

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a world without nuclear weapons at the UN on Wednesday and urged a multilateral system based on equality among nations large and small. His speech at the United Nations in Geneva came at the end of a diplomatic tour that included a landmark address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, just days before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

The UK Ministry of Defence has officially awarded a £30m contract to produce a prototype laser weapon. The aim is to see whether "directed energy" technology could benefit the armed forces, and is to culminate in a demonstration of the system in 2019. The contract was picked up by a consortium of European defence firms. The prototype will be assessed on how it picks up and tracks targets at different distances and in varied weather conditions over land and water.

The president-elect Donald Trump has stunned nuclear weapons experts by appearing to call for a renewed arms race on his Twitter feed and in a TV interview. “Let it be an arms race,” the president in waiting was reported to have told Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe programme, in an early phone call on Friday. According to Brzezinski he went on to say: “We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to 'greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability' until the rest of the world "comes to its senses" regarding nuclear weapons.

Residents of al Hayma, a coastal village in western Yemen, recovered evidence of cluster bombs after an attack in October that killed a local fisherman. On the morning of October 5, Ali Mohammed “Jubahi” Medarij set out early from his family home in al-Hayma, a coastal fishing village on the Red Sea in western Yemen. Every day, the 34-year-old fisherman traveled 9 miles to a local market — not to sell his catch, but to look for work.

The Canadian government has announced plans to acquire F/A-18E/F Super Hornet multi-role fighters. Ottawa wants to secure a modest number of the jets until it decides on a real replacement for its current fleet of legacy Hornet fighters—which won't be the F-35. During the 1980s, Canada bought 138 CF-18 Hornets (its designation for the Boeing F/A-18A Hornet). Canadian CF-18s flew combat missions in the Persian Gulf War, NATO operations in the former Yugoslavia, Libya, and most recently over...

Weapons for Western-backed rebels in Syria are ending up in the hands of IS, reports Gordon Corera.

On 17 July 1962, a caravan of scientists, military men, and dignitaries crossed the remote desert of southern Nevada to witness an historic event. Among the crowd were VIPs such as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and presidential adviser General Maxwell D. Taylor who had come to observe the “Little Feller I” test shot, the final phase of Operation Sunbeam… By Alan Bellows.

Animals have had to get pretty inventive when it comes to self-defense. Meet a few creatures that use projectile vomit to avoid being eaten by predators.

This takes homebrewed PCs to an entirely new level. By Kyle Mizokami.

No ally's fate is important enough for the United States to risk a nuclear war. By Christopher Layne.