During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to flying saucers. At one point during the discussion, Fermi blurted out: “Where is everybody?” – or, as another

Inspired by Ukraine’s battlefield gains, Taiwan is betting on drones to deter a potential Chinese invasion. Listen · 9:03 min Members of Taiwan’s military operating a drone during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Changhua, Taiwan, on Thursday.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times Aug. 9, 2026 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版