Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sits beside Iranian officials and other leaders during his swearing-in ceremony in Tehran on July 30, 2024. On the first row, second to the left, is Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
General view of an apartment block in Pechatniki suburb, southeast of Moscow, after an explosion destroyed four stories out of 18 of the building, September 9, 1999. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
The Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
Iranian schoolgirls wave their national flag and hold an anti-US slogan during celebrations in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 11, 2016. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama, chairs a special meeting of the UN security council during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2014 in New York. (ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images)
A Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force vessel (R) is chased by Chinese Maritime Police Bureau ships on May 27, 2014 (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
A S-200 surface-to-air missile is driven past Iranian military commanders during the annual military parade on September 22, 2015, in the capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)