EditorialPolice officers at the scene where missile parts fell onto a residential parking lot and destroyed several cars in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, March 9, 2023. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialA Chinese test of a hypersonic missile designed to evade American nuclear defenses was “very close” to a “Sputnik moment” for the United States, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, the first official confirmation of how Beijing’s demonstration of its capabilities took American officials by surprise. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times)
EditorialA handout photo from the US Navy, a hypersonic missile launches from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020. (Oscar Sosa/US Navy via The New York Times)