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Nuclear weapons and arms control

Nuclear weapons and arms control

Arms dealers - weapons, guns, military trade

Arms dealers - weapons, guns, military trade

3D Printing - weapons, guns, military uses

3D Printing - weapons, guns, military uses

Military, Robots, Drones and AI

articles and videos looking at drones, ai and military applications

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Article

Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones

Ukraine’s drone innovations have changed how the US is planning for a war with China. (2024)


Article

The global arms bazaar. Meet the world’s new arms dealers 

Geopolitics in the war in Ukraine are changing where the world buys its arms. Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap | International (2023)


Article

Why China fears Starlink. China in space

And why it wants to build its own satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit | China (2023)


Article

How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use

Drones and 3d printing: In the fight against Russian invaders, ingenuity pays | Science & technology (2023)


Article

Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race | The Economist

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit | Leaders (2023)


Article

The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us. Microsoft, a comp... (2021)


Article

Killer Drone Autonomously 'Hunted Down' a Human Target, UN Experts Say

A “lethal” weaponized drone “hunted down” and “remotely engaged” human targets without its handlers’ say-so during a conflict in Libya last year, a... (2021)


Article

Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)


Article

Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets – TechCrunch

The killer use case for AR/VR might just be warfare. Today, Microsoft announced that it has received a contract to outfit the United States Army wi... (2021)


Article

Why remote war is bad war - MIT Technology Review

Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. "The lus... (2019)


Article

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: The Untold Story of Cryptography Pioneer Elizebeth Friedman – Brain Pickings

How an unsung heroine established a new field of science and helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance. (2018)


Article

The greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear | Film | The Guardian

He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and rev... (2018)


Article

Get Ready for the Silicon Military - Harvard

As the global defense industry embraces digital technology, it is creating a new type of warfare with different winners and losers... (2018)


Article

Mutually assured detection - Military applications - The Economist

Better anti-submarine warfare will mean fewer places for subs to hide "ON JULY 20th 1960, a missile popped out of an apparently empty Atlantic o... (2018)


Article

Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones | Gizmodo

Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence for analyzing drone footage, a... (2018)


Article

Slaughterbots: Military robots are getting smaller and more capable - The Economist

Miniature robotics ON NOVEMBER 12th a video called “Slaughterbots” was uploaded to YouTube. Slaughterbots” is fiction. The question Dr Russel... (2018)


Article

Daughters of WWII refugees are more likely to have mental illness - Axios

A new study raises the possibility that the trauma of war can be inherited. (2017)


Video

What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything

This is a video about the most famous problem in Game Theory, the Prisoner’s Dilemma. (2024)


Video

Anduril - Can Palmer Luckey Reinvent the U.S. Defense Industry? | WSJ

Military tech startup Anduril Industries is shaking up the U.S. defense industry as it is one of the few privately held technology companies findin... (2023)


Video

Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory

Why Were Things So Terrible In the 17th Century - General Crisis Theory (2023)


Video

Ethiopia, Egypt and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War

Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan and water from the Nile: Why This Circle Could Spark Africa’s Biggest War (2023)


Video

American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History

American Civil War from The European Perspective | Animated History (2022)


Video

KQED Learn | Discussions: The Gene : An Intimate History and Eugenics

How Can We Avoid the Mistakes of the Past? Eugenics is the idea that people can improve humanity by regulating who is allowed to reproduce and ... (2020)


Video

How ski warfare created biathlon

It all started as a military exercise in Norway. We interviewed a sports expert about the truth behind "mind over matter"... (2018)


Podcast

What Does Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The U.S.A.' Really Mean? : NPR

It's not enough to say the Bruce Springsteen hit is misunderstood. Its contrasts — between grim verses and a joyous chorus, damning facts and fierc... (2019)


Podcast

History of Trade policy after WWII (podcast) | The New York Times on Spotify

In announcing new protections on steel and aluminum imports, President Trump said he was acting in the interest of national security. But could the... (2018)


Podcast

The threat to world trade (podcast) | The Economist on Spotify

Our cover this week warns against the damage that will be inflicted by America’s impending tariffs on steel and aluminium. For the first time in de... (2018)


Book

Man's Search for Meaning - book by Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning has 231,979 ratings and 12,175 reviews. Frank said: After I read this book, which I finished many, many years ago, I had b... (2018)


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