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The US is striking targets across Syria, and it isn’t the only one dropping bombs in this uncertain moment

American warplanes pounded Syria with airstrikes as the Assad regime fell on Sunday. They hit dozens of targets in support of the anti-ISIS mission, which officials say will continue. The US isn’t the only military conducting strikes amid the uncertain situation in Syria. The US military has carried out extensive airstrikes in Syria since the […]

Science

The Odd Arctic Military Projects Spawned by the Cold War

Paul Bierman, Undark Magazine In recent years, the Arctic has become a magnet for climate change anxiety, with scientists nervously monitoring the Greenland ice sheet for signs of melting and fretting over rampant environmental degradation. It wasn’t always that way. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, […]