The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its efforts against nuclear weapons.

The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Rocket Force, which is responsible for China's conventional and nuclear missiles, successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday.

Aerospace and defense firm Lockheed Martin hit a record high on the stock market on Wednesday after its shares jumped further 3.5% in the wake of a Q2 earnings report that exceeded expectations.

On Friday, US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that the US had eradicated the last of its chemical weapons stockpile when it destroyed the last sarin nerve agent-filled M55 rocket at the Blue Grass Army Depot in McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.

A military judge at Fort Bliss sentenced US Army Private Travis King — who last year ran into North Korea — to 12 months' confinement on Friday, and declared him free based on time already served.