According to a new book about Reagan's Star Wars program, the point of the program was never about developing a working missile defense but trying to convince the Russians that they could.
There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials told ABC News. "It is the view of the intelligence community that a test is a real possibility," said a senior State Department official.
An overview of some of the U.S. Military's efforts to learn from the natural world by developing new techniques based on animal behavior, or exploit it directly by enlisting animals directly in warfighting efforts.
The US Defense Budget for 2005 contains a program that some analysts say could "cross the Rubicon into space weaponization". The program in question, the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite, is primarily designed to track ballistic missiles from space for missile defense but it will also contain a smaller "kill vehicle" that can be used to attack missiles or enemy satellites.
The U.S. General Accounting Offices reports that the U.S. food supply is vulnerable to terrorist attacks partly because the government cannot ensure the security of processing plants.
From tinkering with the brain to analyzing dolphins, the military is conducting radical research in an effort to find ways to skip sleep.
U.S. moves to build a missile defense system will impede the fight against terrorism and lead to a "new senseless arms race," Russia warned after the United States said it will start work on deploying the first interceptors in 2004.
As astronauts continue construction on the world's largest outpost in space, some hope to begin building a research base at the other end of our world ? deep under the ocean. The proposed Ocean Atmosphere Seafloor Integration Study, or OASIS, would offer aquanauts (the underwater version of astronauts) a permanent perch on the continental shelf about 600 feet below the ocean surface.
Sifting through piles of intelligence data to spot a terrorist attack may require the use of artificially intelligent computer systems. But don't expect these smart systems to provide blanket protection in an uncertain world.
In this month's issue of The Industrial Physicist, Criswell lays out his plan to build solar panels and micro transmitters from lunar materials and begin beaming solar energy to Earth.