SOLDIER OF THE FUTURE
It’s the year 2030. As a soldier enters a crowded marketplace, sensors mounted on his helmet automatically scan faces in the crowd, identifying a known insurgent; a cursor in the...
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It’s a scenario so far-fetched, it sounds like something out of “South Park”: Somewhere in the heart of North Korea, an elite unit of computer geeks hacks into the Pentagon’s...
View ArticleTHE CIA, SIBERIA AND THE $5M BAR BILL
On Dec. 4, 2001, five members of a Las Vegas-based charter crew were detained by Russian authorities after they landed without visas in Petropavlovsk. The remote Russian city, located on...
View ArticleMy fission trip inside Iran
Two years ago, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, issued a strange invitation: Come to Tehran! See the sights! Tour our nuclear facilities! In February of 2007, I was part of this...
View ArticleThe battle against IEDs
Airborne sensors that can spot stones being moved near a road, lightning guns that zap explosives, and jammers that disrupt signals used to detonate bombs. The Pentagon has tested just...
View ArticleAttack of the drones
Every war brings its signature weapon. In World War I, it was the fighter plane; in WWII, the atomic bomb. The Cold War produced missiles capable of traveling halfway around...
View ArticleA weapon that can strike anywhere on Earth in 30 minutes
Call it a reusable space vehicle. Call it a space plane. But whatever you do, just don’t call it a space weapon. That’s the message from the Air Force after...
View ArticleIran spy game is deadly real
SPOOKED: Video-game consultant Amir Mirz Hekmati was sentenced to death in Iran because of his work with Kuma Games, maker of “Assault on Iran” and other games (above & left)....
View ArticleThe ultra-lethal drones of the future
In 13 short years, killer drones have gone from being exotic military technology featured primarily in the pages of specialized aviation magazines to a phenomenon of popular culture, splashed across...
View ArticleWhat is the Pentagon’s secret space drone doing?
For almost two years, an unmanned space plane bearing a remarkable resemblance to NASA’s space shuttle has circled the Earth, performing a top-secret mission. It’s called the X-37B Orbital Test...
View ArticleTHE SOUND AND THE FURY
At last year’s Gadgetoff convention in New York, the Department of Homeland Security’s undersecretary of science and technology showed off the latest and greatest in nonlethal weapons: a puke gun. “The...
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