Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, Saudi delegation, and Iranian delegation in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony to confer the "City of Military Glory" title to five Russian towns at the Kremlin on June 22, 2015, in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
An operational test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on September 26, 2013. (Andy Wulfestieg via Flickr)
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via Getty Images)