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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian mortar team near Toretsk, Ukraine, on March 26, 2024. (Wolfgang Schwan via Getty Images)
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Texas national guardsmen arrive at the El Paso airport on March 26, 2024 in El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Emergency services vehicles are seen outside the burning Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia, on March 22, 2024. (Stringer via Getty Images)
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Inazuma in the Philippine Sea on February 16, 2022. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alonzo Martin-Frazier)
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Taliban fighters stand guard near a car damaged by multiple rockets in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
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The United States detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll on July 1, 1946. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, attending the Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg on July 30, 2023. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
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David Asher
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