Three AIs clashed in ‘War Games’. 95% of them resorted to nuclear weapons and none ever surrendered

In ‘War Games‘ (John Badham, 1983) the WOPR machine (‘Joshua’) constantly played at simulating nuclear wars for the US Government. The objective: to learn from these simulations so that if there was a nuclear war, the US could win it by taking advantage of that knowledge. That led to a legendary final lesson – “Strange … Read more

We have been looking for the end of Neanderthals in weapons and climate for decades. A study proposes to look for it in the placenta

For decades, we have tried to explain why our species has persisted over time and Neanderthals don’t. We have blamed climate changeto competition for resources, to a supposed cognitive inferiority and even to the genetic assimilation. However, a new study suggests that the answer might not lie on the battlefield or in the weather, but … Read more

Spain’s main problem is not weapons, fighters or drones. It is the number of hands you need to use them.

In recent years, the defense debate in Europe has revolved almost exclusively around money and technology. It talks about percentages of GDPmodernization and new systems capable of changing the battlefield. However, there is a much less visible factor that ends up being decisive when it comes time to turn plans into reality. A decade of … Read more

The US was convinced that China was testing nuclear weapons, and now it has proof

Washington and Moscow maintained an unwritten rule which has now been broken: if a test was carried out, the world had to find out. For decades, the global strategic balance was sustained by fragile agreements, mutual distrust and red lines that no one wanted to openly cross. When those limits have started to fadeeven the … Read more

that of a world without nuclear weapons control

During the sixties, at the height of the cold warthe United States and the Soviet Union accumulated nuclear weapons without clear limits, trapped in a logic of absolute distrust marked by crises such as that of the missiles in Cuba and by the certainty that a miscalculation could trigger a global catastrophe. It was in … Read more

Germany does not want to depend on Elon Musk for war. So the largest weapons factory in Europe wants a “military Starlink”

For decades, European security has rested on critical infrastructure controlled from the United States. But with the war back on the continent and space communications becoming a decisive military assetGermany is beginning to assume that it cannot afford depend on Elon Musk nor from Washington for something as basic as talking and fighting in case … Read more

We have been looking for new weapons against superbugs for years. We have designed one at 400 km altitude

Humanity has a big problem right now that can condemn it to its disappearance: antibiotic resistance. This forces science to be in a constant search for new treatments and also for raising awareness of the responsible use of drugs. And the last place where they have found a new path of research is in space. … Read more

Germany is experiencing a new “industrial miracle” that it already experienced 90 years ago: that of weapons

Germany has been living a transformation silent but very deep. The country that saw the birth of the industrial miracle of the automobile is seeing something similar again, but from a perspective completely different: rearmament, which until recently was a political taboo and a social discomfort, has become a great industrial and labor accelerator. War … Read more

It already has quantum weapons that it is testing in real missions

The research, weapons and defense departments of the main powers are a black hole. We cannot know what is on the other side, unless we They are the ones who allow us to take a look. It makes sense, since announcing a technology hastily would alert the rival. In this context, China has just taken … Read more

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