Good news for everybody out there who's been paralyzed by fear of a robot takeover in the not too distant future. You know that last resort weapon in _The Matrix_, the one that Keanu Reeves or whoever activates when those stingray-looking robots are
When it comes to military aircraft technology, there's fast and then there's fast. The Air Force has lately been trying hard to redefine notions of speed and distance with its new hypersonic experimental aircraft, the X-51A Waverider. On Tue…
If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic. For example, consider…
In March 1958, an American B-47E bomber flying en route to Britain dropped its payload -- an _atomic bomb_ similar to the infamous Fat Boy -- on Florence, South Carolina. Yes, you read that right. Luckily, only six people were injured. No one died.
The U.S. military's flight toward robotic warfare passed a milestone in February, when the Navy rolled out "the X-47B":http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/nucasx47b/index.html at Edwards Air Force base for its first flight test. The plane, say…
