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)
Smoke rises during clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. (Ahmed Satti/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Russia's Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova holds a press conference on activity in captured Ukraine territories in the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on April 4, 2023. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Hudson Senior Fellow Joshua Meservey at Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, on April 4, 2023. (Madeline Mills/Hudson Institute)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls via DVIDS)
A watchtower on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a reeducation camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained in Xinjiang, China, on May 31, 2019. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)