America has played a special role in the post-WWII era, repeatedly unleashing horrors on the world. We started the nuclear arms race by bombing Japan, staged the first cyberattack on Iran (we now live in fear of the next being on us), and now we’re flooding the world with armed drones. Here Stratfor explains the likely consequences. By Fabius Maximus,

A top Russian official says Russia will destroy all of its chemical weapons by the end of next year, a year earlier than previously announced.

It's finally happening! By Kyle Mizokami.

You'll never look at a tobacco hornworm the same way again.

WASHINGTON: If you want a glimpse of future war, look back a hundred years to the bloody stalemate of the Somme, the cataclysmic battle of World War I.

The crew of a guided-missile destroyer fired three missiles to defend themselves and another ship after being attacked on Sunday in the Red Sea by two presumed cruise missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi-forces, USNI News has learned. During the attack against USS Mason (DDG-87), the ship’s crew fired the missiles to defend the guided-missile destroyer and nearby USS Ponce (AFSB(I)-15) from two suspected cruise missiles fired from the Yemini shore, two defense officials told USNI News.

The British government and the UK arms industry have a “politically intimate and hugely compromising relationship” that sees government officials working “hand in glove” with companies promoting weapons exports, according to campaigners who have tracked thousands of meetings between officials and arms trade representatives.

For decades, they were relatively common.

North Korea is celebrating the launch of a ballistic missile from a submarine. Regime leader Kim Jong Un says his nuclear weapons can now strike the US mainland. Should Americans be worried?

Crusader-era hand grenade found among an incredible trove of archaeological artifacts collected by electric company worker.

North Korea has fired a submarine-based ballistic missile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says.

As with nukes, the massive destructive potential of cyberwar is driving stability for now -- but it could unleash chaos in the very near future.

Seventy years ago, at Bikini Atoll, weapons of mass destruction became a form of consumer entertainment. By Alex Wellerstein. (July 25, 2016)

A week ago, the question of whether the U.S. should continue to station nuclear missiles in Turkey was of interest only to a passel of national-security geeks and nonproliferation advocates. One failed coup later, the discussion has spread to CNN, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Who's winning the debate? The U.S. has an undisclosed number of B61 tactical nuclear bombs -- probably around 50 -- in bunkers at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey. The U.S. Air Force has operated out of Incirlik for years, more so recently in the fight against Islamic State across the nearby borders of Syria and Iraq.

“So here’s a question that’s puzzled me for years (and I’m something of an arms wonk): Why do other major US exports—from Hollywood movies to Midwestern grain shipments to Boeing airliners—garner regular coverage while trends in weapons exports remain in relative obscurity?” By William D. Hartung.

There is a lot of buzzing about lately about the future of the United States’ “nuclear triad.” The triad is the strategic reliance on three specific delivery “platforms” for deterrence: manned-bombers, long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Do we need all three “legs” of the triad? By Alex Wellerstein. (July 15th, 2016)

The U.S. Air Force has asked defense firms to bid to supply new ICBMs and controversial nuclear cruise missiles. By Marcus Weisgerber.

Recent news that President Obama may be considering changes in nuclear deterrence policy has caused a storm of speculation as to whether the time is right for the U.S. government to declare a no first-use policy… By Al Mauroni and David Jonas.

Mass shootings have one thing in common: toxic masculinity. Where does it come from and what can be done to stop it?

The exact moment when one of the world’s most dangerous mosquitoes arrived in the Americas is unknown. It's clear that they came from Africa, and they may have crossed the Atlantic as early as 1495, on some of the first European ships to reach Hispanola. By 1648, when yellow fever broke out on the Yucatan peninsula, Aedes aegypti had definitely arrived. Their behavior upon arrival, though, was unusual. Most of the world's 3,500-plus mosquito species are innocent of lust for human blood but on these long journeys across the sea, the mosquitoes that survived were the ones willing to bite humans.