In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and President Trump at the Texas Department of Public Safety Emergency Operations Center in Austin, Texas, August 29, 2017 (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
President Truman reading a statement warning that the U.S. is considering using the atomic bomb in the Korean War, November 30, 1950 (Bettmann Archives)
President Donald Trump speech at the monument to the heroes of the 1944 Warsaw Rising against the Nazis, July 6, 2017 (Krystian Dobuszynski/NurPhoto via Getty Images)