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A nuclear test can happen thousands of miles away, hidden underground or far from any camera. But the atmosphere may still give it away.That is where the Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix comes in.The U.S. Air Force operates only three Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix, yet these unusual jets perform a mission tied directly to nuclear detection, arms-control monitoring and national security. They don’t carry bombs, chase fighters or spend their time photographing enemy positions.Instead, they collect something much less dramatic and potentially far more revealing: air samples.The idea is surprisingly simple. A nuclear event can release radioactive particles and gases into…

Report September 4, 2026 • 12:25 pm ET Print this page By Jeffrey Gedmin Bottom lines up front Elites and establishment parties in Europe have been losing ground for more than a decade.On September 6, Germany’s right-wing populists may be set for a first step to federal power.Europe’s future may depend on the ability of mainstream German parties to set a new course. Alice Weidel, the right-wing populist leader whom JD Vance met—while declining to meet with Germany’s sitting chancellor—at last year’s Munich Security Conference, had sharp words for US President Donald Trump. Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) was unsettled by the US…

UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje believes that his knockout loss to Max Holloway back at UFC 300 was an important part of his story in mixed martial arts. As we know, Justin Gaethje is the undisputed 155-pound champion in the UFC courtesy of blockbuster wins over Paddy Pimblett and Ilia Topuria – with the latter being the kind of upset that many people couldn’t believe. Along the way, though, Gaethje has certainly been on a rollercoaster ride in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Despite losing a handful of fights, Justin Gaethje never allowed that to set him back too much on…

SubSea Craft (SSC) has unveiled a new modular payload cassette system for MARS, their compact Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), enabling the delivery of mission-configurable effects in contested environments. SubSea Craft press release Designed for expeditionary operations, the new patent-pending system uses dedicated cassettes which can be installed, removed and exchanged by a two-person team whilst deployed. This allows MARS to be quickly reconfigured for different missions, reducing integration timelines and accelerating the introduction of new payloads. The cassette system has been informed by end user engagement, supporting MARS’ ability to adapt to evolving operational requirements while maintaining a simple and…

Gen 2 Hot Weather Jungle Boot by McRae Footwear Introducing McRae Footwear’s new U.S. Marine Corps certified Gen 2 Hot Weather Jungle Boot. Designed for tropical environments where shedding debris and superior breathability are non-negotiables. Available exclusively at the Camp Pendleton and Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Exchange. This entry was posted on Friday, September 4th, 2026 at 16:00 and is filed under Boots, USMC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

A former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding the government of nearly $250,000 by secretly holding multiple federal contracting jobs and submitting timesheets that sometimes claimed she worked 33 hours in a single day.Richeline Anisso Fung pleaded guilty to a federal false claims charge, the Justice Department announced.She worked full time at CISA from September 2016 until October 2025. Between January 2021 and August 2024, she simultaneously held contracting positions supporting the Drug Enforcement Administration and the departments of Energy, Justice, Transportation and Agriculture, as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.Some of that work was…

The U.S. Marine Corps is looking to acquire high-resolution 3D scanners to detect cracked body armor.The goal is to develop sensors that can “scan individual hard armor plates for cracks and delaminations,” according to a Marine Corps Request For Information, which is due Oct. 2. More specifically, the devices will inspect Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts and United States Marine Corps Lightweight Plates.The Enhanced Armor Inspection System will use computed tomography, or CT, scanners. CT scanning, commonly used for tasks such as medical imaging and airport bomb detection, creates 3D images that are more detailed than traditional 2D X-ray images.The…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would ask European nations to pay back the United States for military aid and munitions previously sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia and appeared to signal a halt in sales to allied nations.In a social media post, Trump also slammed reports of heavily depleted U.S. munition stockpiles amid the separate war in Iran, while adding that the United States was ramping up production and stockpiling munitions.“We are taking them for ourselves, the U.S.A., rather than selling them to others, but the sales to allies will soon again, begin,” Trump…

Updated at 12:00 p.m. ETThe Agriculture Department is telling a federal court that a majority of employees who received relocation notices so far have agreed to relocate – a higher acceptance rate than what the department experienced with a smaller-scale relocation under the first Trump administration. In an Aug. 28 court filing, Mary Pletcher Rice, USDA’s acting principal deputy assistant secretary for administration, told a federal judge in San Francisco that 725 USDA employees have received management directed reassignment (MDR) letters so far, and that 64% of them have accepted reassignment. USDA agencies saw major staffing losses when it relocated hundreds of D.C.-based…

Opposition from the United States and Russia has raised doubts that countries meeting in Geneva will on Friday agree on a document that could pave the way to international rules on the use of autonomous weapons, three diplomats said.The 128 states that are party to the Convention on ​Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), an international framework hosted under the United Nations in Geneva that regulates or bans specific types of weapons considered excessively injurious or indiscriminate, have been meeting this week in the Swiss city.They are set to decide whether consensus can be reached on a non-binding text that may usher…