Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nuclear weapon, carried by balloon, detonates as part of Operation Plumbob in 1957. Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small ...

(Tribune News Service) — China’s high-altitude surveillance balloon maneuvered over sensitive U.S. missile and nuclear weapons sites in addition to ones in Montana passed over before being shot down ...

One week has passed since a Chinese balloon was spotted sailing 60,000 feet above Montana; four days since a U.S. F-22 fighter jet shot it out of the sky 6 miles off the South Carolina coast; and ...

Border Patrol and Pentagon leaders are facing a wave of ridicule after a sophisticated anti-drone laser system, backed by tens of millions of dollars in Defense Department spending, ended up being ...

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) raised dire alarms over the Chinese surveillance balloon traveling across the country and floated the notion that it may carry something nefarious ...

Mr. Ropeik is an author and a retired Harvard instructor. These are not safe times to be a weather balloon. Until a couple of weeks ago, the high altitude weather and research balloons we all know are ...