An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Oana-SilviaȚoiu speaks during a joint press conference with the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine on August 7, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House of Representatives at the US Capitol on April 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A member of a Ukrainian artillery brigade during a training session near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Sameer al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian serviceman holds a Stinger anti-aircraft weapon onboard a Maritime Guard of the State Border Service of Ukraine boat as it patrols in the northwestern Black Sea on December 18, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives from the American business, strategic, and academic communities at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Shen Hong via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden listens to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a press conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit in Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
A crewman does preflight checks on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for launch aboard a MKVI patrol boat on October 16, 2019, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo by Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nelson Doromal Jr.)