During the 1950s, mushroom clouds regularly rose on the horizon of the blistering Nevada desert, visible from hotel rooftops and cocktail lounges in Las Vegas. Rather than fleeing from these symbols of unimaginable destruction, Americans moved toward them.
Tourists gathered with cameras, newspapers printed test schedules, and casinos timed breakfasts and cocktails to coincide with nuclear detonations. Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of Cold War America: Miss Atomic Bomb.
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New footage replaced by Chinese state media has shown the People’s Liberation Army Navy Type 055 class destroyer Lhasa operating alongside one of the service’s oldest surface combat ships, the Type 051C class destroyerShijiazhuang, highlighting how modern multirole and older specialist destroyer types can field highly complementary capabilities.
Hanwha Aerospace has broken ground on an armoured vehicle production facility in Petrești, Dâmbovița County, in a move to establish its first manufacturing site in Europe.
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New high-tech surveillance radar, electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear and the ability to launch and recover combat-critical drones are merely a few of the technologies…
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The new AN/APG-85 radar is a critical element of the…
New footage of J-20A fifth generation fighters serving under the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command has shown ten of the aircraft with newradar domes that clearly differ from those of older production models, with analysts observing a high likelihood that this is an indicator of a radar upgrade. This has occurred as the U.S.
When everyone is accountable, who is actually responsible?I can’t help but think of this question as I consider the flurry of new top-down activity on acquisition reform and modernization. In January 2026, the Defense Department and White House released four new initiatives: two memorandums on the defense innovation system and AI, an executive order on defense industry standards, and a new pilot program outlining no-fee commercial evaluation licenses.