A view at the beginning point of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) on May 9, 2025, at Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. (Lance King via Getty Images)
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)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Telescope at the quantum communication ground station in Xinglong, north China's Hebei Province, China, November 25, 2016 (Xinhua/Jin Liwang via Getty Images
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the Indo-Pacific Business Forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, July 30, 2018 (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
North Korean soldiers attend celebration in Pyongyang for scientists involved in North Korea's nuclear program, September 6, 2017 (KIM WON-JIN/AFP/Getty Images)