US Navy

The University of Southern California has reportedly ended its practice of selling dead bodies to the US Navy for use by the Israeli military. The arrangement, described in reports by The New Arab, drew scrutiny over the ethical implications of supplying human remains for foreign military training purposes. The university's decision marks a reversal of a programme that had previously gone largely unreported.

The US Navy's W93/Mk7 nuclear warhead program has moved into a new phase of development. The program, intended to modernise the submarine-launched nuclear arsenal, has drawn attention for its cost and its role in long-term strategic deterrence plans. Observers are watching how the advanced warhead design progresses alongside the next-generation Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines it is meant to arm.