Nukes

Hello, Welcome to Dispensed, Business Insider's weekly healthcare newsletter. In Brooklyn, things are starting to look up. Anecdotally, there are fewer sirens interrupting my thoughts and phone calls. Birds are chirping, and we've set up patio furniture to increase our square footage as we continue to get used to this…

With planned cuts and retirements coming to the U.S. Air Force's bomber inventory, the head of Air Force Global Strike Command wants to make the remaining aircraft even more lethal in the future.The Air Force plans to have a total of 165 to 175 bombers in its inventory once the…

“How old do sharks get up to?” is a frequent question a shark scientist gets asked from the public. There are over 500 different species of sharks, and so the answer varies if we know it. However, many times the answer is “we don’t know” because it’s quite hard to…

Study author Mark Meekan swimming with a whale shark.Photo: Wayne OsbornScientists are determining the lifespan of the world’s largest fish with the help of nuclear weapons tests from the 1950s and 60s.While researchers have made a lot of progress understanding the behavioral patterns of the endangered whale shark, there are…

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Iran and groups linked to Tehran against attacking US troops or assets in Iraq, citing a possible "sneak attack" but giving no other details. "Upon information and belief, Iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US troops and/or assets in Iraq.…

India is currently planning a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. But unlike other nuclear navies, India will not go all-nuclear. Instead they they will be complemented by 6 locally-built Kalvari Class conventionally powered boats and 6 of a follow-on Project-75I type. These conventional diesel-electric boats will be an important pillar…

Home News Spaceflight A photograph showing SpaceX's first batch of Starlink satellites during launch on May 23, 2019. With companies like SpaceX launching small satellites over larger ones, will the U.S. military follow suit? (Image: © SpaceX) With much of the commercial space industry focused on putting small satellites into…

Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton is a friend, colleague, mentor, and fellow explorer of psychological trauma. Whereas my work has developed from the intimate perspective of sexual and domestic violence, his work has come from the global perspective of nuclear war and totalitarianism. We spoke about how his work in Hiroshima helps…

When the Vietnam War began to heat up in 1965 — the first major deployment of U.S. ground troops was in March of that year — the American Embassy in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) began holding a daily military briefing at 5 each afternoon. An officer, usually a…

Submarines do social distancing really well. On patrol, a nuclear submarine can go without physical contact with the outside world for months on end. Yet the entire crew of a Russian submarine has reportedly been quarantined after indirect contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19. And today a Dutch submarine…