Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...

The world is a safer place thanks to the effective implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). The convention, which was opened for signature in 1972, prohibits the ...

Future nuclear missiles may be siloed but, unlike their predecessors, they’ll exhibit “some level of connectivity to the rest of the warfighting system,” according to Werner J.A. Dahm, the chair of ...

An overview of the future of non-lethal weapons / John Alexander -- Non-lethal weapons and international law: three perspectives on the future / David P. Fidler -- The revolution in military affairs ...

For nearly two years now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used U.S. weapons to hold on to power, drive incomprehensible levels of human suffering and push an entire region toward all-out ...