Not every underperforming weapon was poorly designed. In many cases, the problem wasn’t the technology but really it was the environment that it depended on. From aircraft that needed perfect timing ...

Opinion: This op-ed's authors argue that the president's nuclear testing comments were correct, considering America's aging ...

The Defense Department wants troops to have new weapons quickly. But testing processes don't include the best ways to do that ...

And, well, they were slow and easily shot down, by air or by ground forces.

On Oct. 30, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time since the early 1990s, arguing the move was necessary to keep pace with Russia ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would revive nuclear weapons testing — which the U.S. has not done since 1992 — left experts, lawmakers and military personnel scratching their ...

Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons - as President Donald Trump called for last week - would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation's adversaries to ...

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President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...

The Pentagon wants to get troops new weapons faster, but its testing isn't following best practices, according to a new government watchdog report. Current policies have often focused on looking for ...