Every day, Russian warplanes lob as many as a hundred KAB glide bombs at Ukrainian troops and cities. The 25-mile-range bombs, some as heavy as three tons, are among the most devastating weapons in ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed missing weapons is somewhere between five and nine, depending on what ...

A U.S. Air Force airman loads JDAMs on a Boeing B-52 bomber. The U.S. Defense Department reportedly plans to equip the Ukrainian air force with satellite-guided bombs. The Pentagon’s proposal to give ...

In late October 2023, the Pentagon announced—to the surprise of many, including congressional staffers who work on these issues—that it was pursuing a new nuclear weapon to be known as the B61-13, a ...

U.S. and Ukrainian alarm over a flurry of Russian claims that Kyiv plans to deploy a so-called dirty bomb have worsened fears that President Vladimir Putin could try to escalate the conflict to try to ...

A B-1B bomber was sighted over the Mojave desert armed with the new GBU-72 Advanced 5K penetrator. The GBU-72 is designed to smash through reinforced concrete and destroy underground facilities. The ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Today, 9 countries wield nuclear weapons with the ...

The summer’s most popular history-related film is Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, about the theoretical physicist and atomic bomb mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie comes 78 ...

Recent storms and strong waves were responsible for washing a World War II-era practice bomb onto the shore of a Santa Cruz County beach on New Year’s Eve, according to the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s ...

Bug bombs first protected U.S. soldiers from insect-borne diseases in the Pacific during World War II. By the end of the war, more than 40 million had been deployed, fumigating everything from ...