Dr. Ash Rossiter

During the war in Ukraine, videos have circulated of drones laden with explosives targeting buildings, or being remotely piloted via first-person view (FPV) towards troops seeking cover in trenches or other structures. These "suicide" drones are reshaping conflict far beyond Ukraine.

How Suicide Drones Are Shaping Modern Conflict

A Game Changer?

On 30 July 2023, for only the second time in history, a team of 8,000 engineers and scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California successfully completed a nuclear fusion reaction that achieved ignition. This means that the reaction yielded more energy than was originally put into it. Last December, the same team of researchers first created the star-like conditions of fusion ignition in a lab. Fusion is produced by combining atoms to produce energy. At extreme temperatures and pressures, atoms collide and "fuse," releasing huge amounts of energy. Nuclear fusion has sometimes been described as the "holy grail" of clean energy.

How Can Nuclear Fusion Ignition Enable Clean Energy Amid Geopolitical Rivalry?

Promising Potential:

In early May, Iran unveiled what it described as the country’s first domestically produced hypersonic ballistic missile. Iranian state media published pictures of the Fattah missile at a ceremony attended by President Ebrahim Raisi along with members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, was quoted by state media as claiming that the Fattah had a range of 1,400 kilometers and could penetrate any missile defense shield, even Israel’s Iron Dome.

Is the Rise of Hypersonic Missiles a Game-Changer in Modern Warfare?

Revolutionary Velocity:

Although we rarely think about undersea cable networks, they are central to the modern world. Our very way of life depends on this hidden infrastructure of cables the diameter of a garden hose that crisscrosses the oceans. These cables form a global infrastructure that transmits almost all the data sent over the internet. With daily online financial transactions estimated at over $10 trillion, any disruption to this network would have an immediate effect on the global economy.

Dr. Ash Rossiter

Dr. Ash Rossiter

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