A 47 page Congressional Research Bureau report Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues was written by Amy F. Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons ...

Of all the far-fetched space weapons hyped by the Times last month, "Rods from God" are probably the most dubious. That doesn't stop the Weekly Standard from panting about how totally wicked awesome ...

Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the “rods from god.” The rods are ...

Pictured is all that remains of a 1-mm tapered tungsten rod held by a graphite holder after being bombarded by 5 kilojoules of 2.5 million volt electrons in only 50 nanoseconds. The rapid deposition ...

There are few things more soothing on a Friday afternoon than watching something get sliced up on a lathe. It's a blast to zone out to whether it's metal or wood that's getting the treatment. But when ...