An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A protester flashes victory signs as traffic slows during demonstrations in Hamedan, Iran, on January 1, 2026. The demonstrations erupted after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar shut their businesses to protest the sharp fall of Iran’s currency and worsening economic conditions. (Getty Images)
President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
A Ukrainian serviceman loads a robotic minelaying ground platform with land mines during military training in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on August 31, 2024. (Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Royal Navy security personnel stand guard on HMS Vigilant at Her Majesty's Naval Base on January 20, 2016, in Rhu, Scotland. (Jeff J. Mitchell via Getty Images)
Ukrainian emergency service workers extinguish a fire after a Russian bombing in the town of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on September 4, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin sits in a meeting regarding the situation in the Kursk region on August 12, 2024, in his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the soldiers in the Kupiansk frontline on November 30, 2023, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Presidency/Anadolu via Getty Images)