The Military Stories for 2015

The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use 132
Exploding Munitions Caught On Seismometer 20
Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps 153
The AI Anxiety 207
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation 61
Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time 166
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 85
Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II 82
In Nevada, the World's First "Droneport" 12
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets 61
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols 74
KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 210
Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border 600
Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use 152
Satellite Wars 98
ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon 330
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games 34
DARPA Is About To Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Drone 84
Stanford Creates Tricorder-Like Devices For Detecting Cancer and Explosives 34
China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans 83
Experimental Air Force Rocket Launch Fails 60
'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy 37
US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies 100
US Army Tests Swarms of Drones In Major Exercise 47
Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether 196
Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber 237
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis 289
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Russian Cyberspies Targeted MH17 Crash Investigation 88
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun 469
US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell 216
Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation 350
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars 169
Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification 139
DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles 70
The Top Secret Chinese Military Project That Led To a Nobel Prize 73
F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots 179
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital 410
The Global Struggle To Prevent Cyberwar 57
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe 143
Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman On the Future of War 241
General Atomics To Build Drone Pilot Training Academy In North Dakota 29
The WWII-Era Inspired Plane Giving the F-35 a Run For Its Money 320
Forget Hashtag Activism: a Millennial's Guide To Nuclear Weapons Realism 258
Researchers Fly 50 Autonomous Planes Simultaneously 39
Finnish Diver Finds German WWII Submarine Near Estonia 53
Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb 295
US Navy Limits Use of Whale-Harming Sonar 35
Italian Military To Switch To LibreOffice and ODF 106
Microsoft Signs Renewed Cybersecurity Agreement With NATO 37
Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today 441
The Handheld Analog Computer That Made the Atomic Bomb 45
US Defense Secretary Mulls Rapid Grants For Tech Companies 58
Pentagon Halts Work at Labs For Dangerous Pathogens After Anthrax Scare 50
F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test 502
North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones 180
Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France 468
F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters 732
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
Russian Missile Parts Found At MH17 Crash Site 249
Twilight of the Bomb 332
NBC Report: Russian Hackers Behind Attack On Pentagon Mail System 81
Answering Elon Musk On the Dangers of Artificial Intelligence 262
US Navy Tests 3D Printing Custom Drones On Its Ships 66
Sun Tzu 2.0: The Future of Cyberwarfare 77
US Military Stepping Up Use of Directed Energy Weapons 83
Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons 313
Report: US Military Is Wasting Millions On Satellite Comms 154
Antineutrino Detectors Could Be Key To Monitoring Iran's Nuclear Program 79
What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough? 34
Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord 459
CIA Shares Julia Child's Shark Repellent Recipe 41
The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations 163
For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma 65
The IT Containers That Went To War 65
Prototype Wave Energy Device Passes Grid-Connected Pilot Test 51
The DARPA Robotics Challenge Was a Bust; Let's Try Again 35
Army Exoskeleton Prototype Helps Soldiers Learn To Shoot 86
Naval Research Interested In Bringing 3D Printing To Large Scale For Ships 44
Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight 843
US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company 108
The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP 192
Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? 272
Russian Troops Traced To Ukrainian Battlefields Through Social Media 180
USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators 298
US Navy Solicits Zero Days 59
Ex-CIA Director: We're Not Doing Nearly Enough To Protect Against the EMP Threat 182
US Army Website Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army 116
Combating Climate Risks With 3D Printing 85
Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult 217
US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online 286
Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Plans To Obtain Sensitive Western Tech 131
DARPA Wants You To Verify Software Flaws By Playing Games 31
Live Anthrax Shipped Accidentally To S Korea and US Labs 67
The Marshall Islands, Nuclear Testing, and the NPT 69
SpaceX Cleared For US Military Launches 62
Do Russian Uranium Deals Threaten World Supply Security? 102
Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption 208
US Navy Abandons Cloud and Data Center Plans In Favor of New Strategy 68
Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week 110
Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq 270
Navy's New Laser Weapon: Hype Or Reality? 185
FAA: Big Tech Challenges For Massive Washington, DC Warbirds Flyover 54
The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier 164
US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets 216
Pentagon Discloses Network Breach By Russian Hackers 64
Gen. Petraeus To Be Sentenced To Two Years Probation and Fine 94
Drone Killed Hostages From U.S. and Italy, Drawing Obama Apology 334
Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA 67
US Military To Recruit Civilian Cybersecurity Experts 67
Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast 193
US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target 99
Killer Robots In Plato's Cave 91
UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons 166
Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley 297
China's 'Great Cannon' -- a Cyber-weapon to Accompany the Great Firewall 81
How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects 370
Thousands Visit Trinity Test Site For 70th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast 167
US NAVY Sonar/Lidar Editing Software Released To the World 56
Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides 383
Military Caught Training Children To Fight 72
Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack 179
X-37B To Fly Again 48
Attempted Breach of NSA HQ Checkpoint; One Shot Dead 308
US Air Force Overstepped In SpaceX Certification 71
How Nuclear Weapon Modernization Undercuts Disarmament 228
Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists 150
Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb 341
Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology 126
Finland To Fly "Open Skies" Surveillance Flight Over Russia 103
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard 92
Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them 336
Government Spies Admit That Cyber Armageddon Is Unlikely 70
New Compound Quickly Disables Chemical Weapons 52
Top-Secret US Replica of Iran Nuclear Sites Key To Weapons Deal 94
Laser Imaging Drone To Hunt Out Unexploded Bombs In War-Torn Nations 31
US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base 273
NSA Director Argues For "Red Button" Autonomy Against Unattributed Cyber-Attacks 107
Is Cyber Arms Control a Lost Cause? 47
Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away 274
How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes 247
Paul Allen Helps Find Sunken Japanese WWII Battleship Musashi Off Philippines 114
Interactive Edition of the Nuclear Notebook 52
20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit 253
Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again 318
100 Years of Chemical Weapons 224
Ask Slashdot: How Could We Actually Detect an Alien Invasion From Outer Space? 576
Government, Military and Private Sector Fighting Over Next-Gen Cyber-Warriors 68
US May Sell Armed Drones 131
Canada's Next-Generation Military Smart Gun Unveiled 75
US Military Working On 3D Printing Exact Replicas of Bones & Limbs 80
West Point and Marines Launch Open Cyber Conflict Journal 31
Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? 439
'Google Search On Steroids' Brings Dark Web To Light 69
SpaceX Signs Lease Agreement With Air Force For Landing Pad 53
The Blind Spots In the Nuclear Test Monitoring System 39
DARPA's ALASA Could Pave Way For Cheaper, Faster Satellite Launches 91
Students Demo Firefighting Humanoid Robot On US Navy Ship 55
The US Navy Wants More Railguns and Lasers, Less Gunpowder 517
State Television Says Iran Launches New Satellite Into Space 81
DARPA-Funded Robots Learning To Cook By Watching YouTube Videos 88
UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit 56
US Army Releases Code For Internal Forensics Framework 37
US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One 293
White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap 236
Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law 313
SpaceX, US Air Force Settle Spy Sat Dispute 80
Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 216
Doomsday Clock Could Move 145
DARPA Wants Atlas Robot To Go Wireless 19
Paris Terror Spurs Plan For Military Zones Around Nuclear Plants 148
US Army Wants Weapon To Destroy Drone Swarms 208
Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes 290
NSA Hack of N. Korea Convinced Obama NK Was Behind Sony Hack 181
NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns 81
Being Pestered By Drones? Buy a Drone-Hunting Drone 151
US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts 77
US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages 128
What's Wrong With the Manhattan Project National Park 160
Vast Nazi Facility Uncovered In Austria; Purported A-Bomb Development Site 292