Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) poster displaying North Korean nuclear tests on February 12, 2013, at the CTBTO headquarters in Vienna, Austria. (Dieter Nagl/AFP via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, China, October 1, 2019. (Photo by Xia Yifang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Senior Airman Andrew Parrish performs maintenance on the forward section of an ICBM's reentry system on February 2, 2018, at the F. E. Warren Air Force Base missile complex in Wyoming. (Braydon Williams via DVIDS)
A Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile during Victory Day parade rehearsals on May 7, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Images)
A static display of intercontinental ballistic missiles at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming on April 4, 2012. (US Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Marines with 1st Marine Division G-3 Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense platoon take part in a decontamination drill at Camp Pendleton on December 7, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by Daniel Childs)