Chemical weapons have been an international taboo for decades. But now, some in the United States Air Force are pushing to use them again. A recent study out of the Air War College calls for using chemicals as "first-use weapons against terrorists" -- part of a larger pitch to rethink the long-time pariah of military warfare.
Wormholes -- those hypothetical short cuts in the space-time continuum -- that have been theorized to allow everything from warp speed spacecraft to time travel. Now, researchers are suggesting we can actually create a type of wormhole using those fun metamaterials that everyone is all excited about lately.
The author looks at the growing community of people who believe that they are being targeted by government mind control weapons and the real-life U.S. defense programs that could be the inspiration behind these fears.
Nuclear physicists are debating the possibility of a new class of nuclear weapons or "isomer weapons" that use the radioactive material hafnium-178 to generate an explosion 50,000 times more powerful gram-for-gram then with TNT.