With India and Pakistan both holding arsenals of nuclear weapons, and the two nations locked in seemingly endless hostility over disputed Kashmir, a team of U.S. experts warns that even a limited nuclear war between them could cause a near-global threat to the Earth's atmosphere and the human life it protects.
Israel's most top secret security installations have been jeopardized by a new version of Google Earth, Israeli military experts say.
The online universe is brimming with dozens of virtual worlds vying to build sustainable life in the "avatar age."
Weeks after an organized cyberattack on the Baltic nation of Estonia, security experts in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are assessing its impact and asking the obvious question: Can it happen here? The good news, they say, is that a similar attack would be less likely to succeed in the United States because of the immense size and breadth of the Internet networks here. But the same methods could be employed in new ways to wreak havoc here, and so experts say the private sector and the government have to work harder at shoring up Internet defenses.
Spy chief Mike McConnell has junked the multibillion-dollar stealth spy satellite program that engineers hoped would someday pass undetected through the space above other nations.
Scientists are eyeing the jet stream, an energy source that rages night and day, 365 days a year, just a few miles above our heads. If they can tap into its fierce winds, the world's entire electrical needs could be met, they say.
John Arquilla reviews the current defense budget, with a focus on the spending for high-tech, and non-lethal weaponry such as the "Active Denial System."
Within a decade cars could start driving themselves on highways and in less than 25 years automakers may be producing vehicles "smart" enough to chauffeur passengers through city streets, according to Stanford computer scientist Sebastian Thrun.
U.S. military forces launched a rocket interceptor that destroyed a mock warhead in outer space, giving the Pentagon a much-desired win in its costly and controversial effort to develop a defense against long-range missile strikes.
A congressional committee took major steps this week toward financing the Bush administration's controversial program to build new generations of nuclear warheads, roughly doubling the budget for the design of the new weapons while reducing the money for maintaining the old stockpile.