Was wird aus der #nuklearen #Rüstungskontrolle? Am 5.2. läuft der New START Vertrag endgültig aus. In ihrem Artikel im IPG-Journal fordern @timthies.bsky.social und Philipp Fischer proaktives Handeln von #Europa. Hier lesen ➡️ www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus...

From Adamsky’s book

On Oct. 27, the Pentagon announced it was pursuing a new nuclear weapon, known as the B61-13, an air-delivered gravity bomb that - if developed and deployed - would have a far higher explosive yield than the current new gravity bomb being built, the B61-12. This news is weird, frankly. A thread.

Me: Carol Cohn was right, but I’m sure men today aren’t nearly as prone to making foreign policy a penis-measuring context. Politico: Hold my beer.

Important to note that although the plan is to buy 1,000 LRSO missiles, half of those will be test-launch and backup. The number of LRSOs carrying a nuclear warhead will be the same as for the current ALCM: about 500. warriormaven.com/air/pentagon... Background: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

New paper by David Wright and Cameron Tracy on hypersonic weapons is IN FREE ACCESS. Check it out scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/2023.... A couple of figures from the paper are in the thread (as a teaser) 1/3

Keir Lieber and Daryl Press explain why coercive nuclear escalation—a strategy NATO developed during the Cold War—remains the “the perfect tool for holding off powerful rivals.”

I'm glad that Reuters reached out to get the facts on Russia's abandonment of the CTBT. Contrary to so many other news outlets, they examine the value of testing and take the time to question its necessity.