As global tensions rise, evidence of experimental superweapons is emerging worldwide. A Russian MiG-31 carries an unidentified missile once thought canceled. The U.S. fields upgraded B-1B Lancers, multi-role Super Hornets with SM-6 missiles,

The United States is at the forefront of developing stealth micro-weapons, including micro-drones, which are designed for undetectable operations in modern warfare. These innovations, reported on October 15,

“Latest: 8,300 students killed. 12 universities hit,” reads a news ticker at the bottom of the screen. “Authorities are still struggling to make sense of an attack on university campuses worldwide, which targeted some students and not others,” the newsreader says.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan, third from right, and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, second from right, receive a briefing on how the Detroit Arsenal is leading the Army’s advanced manufacturing efforts. (U.S. Army) Instead of welding tank treads by the ...

It may seem like this level of political violence is unprecedented, but it’s not. Ask your grandparents about the 1960s — an era when political violence became so extreme that the prospect of a peaceful future fell into question.

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily newsletter, a guide to our top stories, featuring exclusive insights from our writers and editors. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. “While the future of warfare is being invented in places like Ukraine, U.S ...

FORT SILL, Okla. — In the rolling plains of Oklahoma, the U.S. Army is taking aim at the future of air defense, and it’s powered by lasers. Recently at Fort Sill, Soldiers conducted a live-fire exercise integrating directed energy — DE — weapons ...

There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.”