General Milley’s reference to a near-Sputnik moment was meant to resonate with a generation that remembers a long-ago Cold War. Sputnik was the launch, in 1957, of a Soviet satellite.

That was how NBC radio introduced the signal from the first satellite in space, on October 4, 1957. But it wasn’t a triumph of American science: The sound came from the Soviet Union’s Sputnik ...

Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called China’s recent test of a hypersonic weapons system “very concerning” — and “very close” to a Sputnik moment as ...

Weapons from Ukraine end up in the hands of terrorists and criminal groups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, ...

Gen. Mark Milley is voicing concern over China’s apparent testing of hypersonic weapons, saying the development is “very close” to a “Sputnik moment.&#82… ...

When the United States joined Israel this weekend in attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, the outrage and condemnation flowed from ...

Panic over spy balloon echoes misguided alarm over Sputnik. ... not launching some new and dangerous weapon to exploit an American vulnerability worthy of the Great Spy Balloon Panic of 2023. ...

Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ner… ...

Nearly seven decades after the Soviet Union’s Sputnik launch jolted America into the space age, ... Russia, despite its economic troubles, continues to develop anti-satellite weapons, ...

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. In that moment, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union transformed into a race to dominate not ...