As Parliament debates the security risks posed by artificial intelligence this week, there is one threat that deserves far more attention than it is receiving: the possibility that AI could make ...

The nuclear bomb is the deadliest weapon on Earth, and its creation permanently changed warfare forever. But what actually happens inside a nuclear bomb? Modern nuclear weapons work through nuclear ...

For decades, many of the most advanced military weapons were developed in complete secrecy. Classified research programs allowed governments to design new aircraft, missiles, and surveillance systems ...

A replica of the Soviet RDS-4 nuclear bomb in a Moscow park on July 29. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images) The world is sleepwalking into a new nuclear arms race. As arms-control treaties hashed out ...

In 1983, the film WarGames imagined a teenager who accidentally accessed a Pentagon computer system and triggered a simulation program, subsequently interpreted as the prelude to a nuclear war. The ...