Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A House of Dynamite, is more accurate on this point than the Defense Department itself.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in a military uniform, announced on Oct. 26, 2025, that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered missile. If true, such a weapon could provide Russia with a unique military capability that also has broader political implications.

But nuclear testing, beyond scattering deadly radiation into the atmosphere and contaminating groundwater, is universally understood as a massively escalatory gesture, expanding the possibility of nuclear war,

The Precision Strike Missile is intended to provide the U.S. Army with a next-generation, long-range precision strike capability.

Lockheed Martin plans an on-orbit demonstration of a space-based missile interceptor by 2028, a key part of the US military's Golden Dome initiative. This ambitious project aims to intercept threats far from American soil,