В то время как Пентагон ведет гонку высокотехнологичных вооружений, чтобы сохранить свое глобальное военное превосходство, экс-генеральный директор Google Эрик Шмидт находится в центре внимания. Behind The Headlines Дэн Коэн исследует, как стремление американской империи контролировать мир с помощью технологий Кремниевой долины создает возможность разрушительной войны.
Озабоченность по поводу новых российских и китайских гиперзвуковых ракетных систем связана не только с опасениями, что соперники США будут «затмевать» с точки зрения технологического превосходства.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Air Force announced within the span of two days earlier this week that it had awarded over $3.3 billion in contracts to U.S. weapons giant Lockheed Martin. The first of these contracts, totaling $480 million, was
Эксперты предупреждают, что автономное оружие «может стать мощным орудием насилия и угнетения» и «легко вызвать гонку вооружений» во всем мире.
Thousands of artificial intelligence (AI) experts and developers have signed a pledge vowing to "neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons," and imploring governments worldwide to work together to "create a
White House officials said the move would be good for the economy, and insisted that building Saudi Arabia’s already substantial military was “essential” because of regional problems.
Earlier this month, US officials said the US was seeking to reach “billions” of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia as part of Trump’s visit to Riyadh. With a week left before the visit, officials now say the White House is very close to the deal,
Critics warn new class of weapons is leading to new global arms race and risks dangerous escalation.
The U.S. military is taking the global arms race to new speeds, with the second test launching of an Advanced Hypersonic Weapon that has the ultimate aim of hitting targets anywhere on earth within an hour by traveling up to five times the speed of sound. But the test, which took place Monday at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, was cut short
The first-ever autonomous landing of a drone on an aircraft carrier heralds in a scary new era of post-human warfare.
The scene is one of the most iconic in all of cinema history. As it opens, we are greeted with a charnel house vision of a post-apocalyptic future. What was once a city full of life and vitality has been transformed into a blasted, irradiated landscape, covered with the twisted remnants of our former civilization. On a wrecked highway,
