Walking down Magrath Avenue in Cambridge today, the sight of the buildings are unlikely to encourage a second glance. Terraced houses towards the southern end give way to a retirement home at the ...

Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the ...

World War I produced some of the deadliest and strangest weapons ever conceived — many of which never made it past testing or saw only brief, disastrous use. From armored tricycles to explosive ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...

Modern warfare is in the process of being rewritten and the biggest shift isn’t a new tank, fighter jet, or missile system.

Israel has revealed new technology it deployed in Gaza and other battlefields in the last two years of war, and a laser it will begin to deploy to intercept missiles.

It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear ...

In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s senior AI reporter, consider the ethical quandaries ...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...

The major powers are ignoring historical experiences altogether in formulating policies, abusing them, and manufacturing ...

At the same time as its factories grow, North Korea’s nuclear weapons are becoming more advanced than many people realise.

The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers, build ...