Threats

Pentagon Equips Kenya, Uganda Against WMD Threats

Move is to help build response capacity of east African countries in the event of a WMD attack. By Diane Barnes

Science & Tech

Pentagon Compromises in Spectrum Fight

The Defense Department now says it can leave the spectrum without losing ‘critical DOD capabilities.'

Ideas

Goodbye Anti-War, Hello Anti-Secrecy

Unable to stop war, the peace movement believes information freedom could be next. To them, Snowden, Manning and Assange are heroes. And it’s not just a cause, it’s an identity. By Kevin Baron

Science & Tech

Someone Purchased the Most Important Data Center on the West Coast

Only two other buildings rival this data center in size and importance. By Simone Foxman

Science & Tech

Cyborg Accessories, Made by Google

The tech giant will be taking personalized computing to new level. By Christopher Mims

Science & Tech

Nuclear Doomsday is Coming Today. You’ll Want to See This.

Joshua, would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War? Then get a load of NUKEMAP 2.0 -- now in 3-D! By Elaine M. Grossman

Threats

Loose Lips Sink Ships, But What About Cybersecurity Leaks?

The lessons from the Snowden and Stuxnet leaks. By Peter W. Singer and Ian Wallace

Science & Tech

Stopping the Next Benghazi Through Technology

The State Department’s security bureau seeks everything from systems to track diplomats’ location to portable firearms training tools. By Joseph Marks

Science & Tech

Intelligence Community Backs Off Information Sharing

The grand information sharing vision seems to have taken a back seat to security in the wake of the NSA leaks. By Bob Brewin

Threats

Images Indicate N. Korea Carried Out Long-Range Rocket Test

The reclusive state has been working and developing a rocket engine

Science & Tech

Ground-Attack Aircraft Radar to Outmaneuver Overcast Skies

L-3 Communications secures a $2.6 million Pentagon deal to build sensors that use extremely high frequency radio technology to see through clouds.

Science & Tech

How the Atomic Bomb Helped Create the Internet

In 1945, The Atlantic's Vannevar Bush's answer to the prospective (and then real) horrors of science-enabled nuclear war -- odd as it may seem -- was to imagine a contraption to aid human knowledge acquisition.