Robotics
Autonomous weapon systems—commonly known as killer robots—may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Automotive
The Australian government has just declared an historic defense agreement with the United States and United Kingdom that will see a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines patrol our shores and surrounding waters.
Sep 16, 2021
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Robotics
Last year, according to a United Nations report published in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using "lethal autonomous weapons systems" that were "programmed to attack targets without requiring data ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Engineering
A team of Sandia National Laboratories engineers developed a new testing capability in support of its nuclear weapons mission. The team completed their first combined-environments test on a full-scale weapons system at the ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Robotics
When it comes to dancing, pulling a sled, climbing stairs or doing tricks, "Spot" is definitely a good dog. It can navigate the built environment and perform a range of tasks, clearly demonstrating its flexibility as a software ...
May 4, 2021
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Robotics
An armed weapons system capable of making decisions sounds like it's straight out of a Terminator movie. But once lethal autonomous weapons are out in the world, there could be no turning back.
Aug 11, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
On the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some may like to think the threat from nuclear weapons has receded. But there are clear signs of a growing nuclear arms race and that the U.S. is not very ...
Aug 7, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
July 15, 2020 marks 75 years since the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. The Trinity Test, in New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert, proved that the design for the Nagasaki Bomb worked and started the nuclear era.
Jul 15, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Officials at one of the nation's premier nuclear labs are investigating the potential exposure of employees to plutonium.
Jul 7, 2020
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Engineering
A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational Friday, Russia's defense minister reported to President Vladimir Putin, bolstering the country's nuclear strike capability.
Dec 27, 2019
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