France ‘ready to strike’ Syria if chemical weapons used during Idlib offensive – army chief

France’s top military chief has said Paris is ready to bomb Syria if chemical weapons are used during the Syrian government’s retaking of Idlib province. It comes a week after Russia warned the US of a pending false flag attack. “We are ready to strike if chemical weapons were used again,” Armed Forces Chief Francois […]

Scientists say ‘sonic attacks’ on US embassies may have been caused by Cold-War era microwave weapons

Scientists say microwave signals may have caused brain injuries to 33 US officials and their family members at embassies in Cuba and China. The saga began in 2016 when 24 US diplomats and their family members fell ill after being exposed to what US officials claim was some form of “sonic attack.” Since then, more […]

Russia gives US intel on planned chemical weapons provocation in Syria

Moscow has briefed US diplomats on a plan by militants to stage a false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Idlib province meant to frame Damascus, the Russian ambassador in the US has said. Anatoly Antonov, the Russian ambassador in Washington, confirmed to the media on Wednesday he had met with the US special representative […]

Trump has Germany thinking about getting nuclear weapons, but some think it’s a ‘totally phoney debate’

President Donald Trump has made Europe think about whether it can rely on US for security. Some there aren’t so sure, and in Germany it has stoked debate about attaining a domestic nuclear deterrent. But on top of political and technical obstacles, Germany is treaty-bound not to develop nuclear arms. President Donald Trump’s relationship with […]

3-D printed guns allow the public access to real, working weapons that are virtually untraceable — here’s how they work

Oli Scarff/Getty Images Eight states announced on Monday that they were suing the Trump administration over giving the public access to blueprints for 3-D printed guns.  The guns do not have serial numbers, people printing them would not have to undergo background checks, and the weapons would virtually be untraceable.  Concern over the rise of 3-D-printed […]

Google’s AI chief on AutoML, autonomous weapons, and the future

Roughly one month ago, news broke that Apple had poached Google AI chief John Giannandrea, and he was quickly replaced by Jeff Dean, leader of the Google Brain research division. The longtime Googler took over as AI chief at a time when AI continues to spread to all Google products and services and the company is making […]

The White House brushes off a major ‘typo’ in its statement on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, blames Obama instead

AP Photo/Evan Vucci The White House brushed off a major “typo” in the statement it issued on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The White House put out a now-amended statement, which read that Iran “has” a secret nuclear weapons program. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later took a jab at the Obama administration for signing the […]

‘Saddam’s weapons’: Ex-ambassador’s Freudian slip on Syria attack

The US, British and French bombing of Syria has put many critics of US President Donald Trump in the awkward position of agreeing with him. One of them, former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, slipped on his own tweet. Attempting to explain why he agreed with the bombing on Twitter, McFaul made a point […]

Syria airstrikes will not deter chemical weapons inspectors – OPCW

A fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog will continue in Syria despite airstrikes carried out on the country hours earlier by the US, UK, and France. Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in the country to investigate the circumstances surrounding reports of a gas attack in the […]