From the Wall Street Journal: From the Jaws of Victory, by Nadia Schadlow. From the Washington Post: New Europe, Old Russia, by Robert Kagan. From UPI: China's Weapons, by Martin Sieff. From the New York Times: Global Warming Jujitsu, by John Tierney. From the Atlantic: After Iraq, by Jeffrey Goldberg. Bonus: 5,000 Years of History in 3 Minutes.
Via Ares: An electromagnetic railgun is fired at 10.64 megajoules with a muzzle
velocity of 2,520 meters per second at Naval Surface Warfare Center.