Al Mauroni
@progmil.bsky.social
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NatSec analyst, WMD and nukes, sci-fi enthusiast, gamer
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We should talk about how the national security community talks about WMD
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Why We Need to Talk about WMD
First we have to convince Congress to wake up
https://open.substack.com/pub/almauroni/p/why-we-need-to-talk-about-wmd?r=2te5in&utm_medium=ios
about 1 year ago
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Michael Hobbes
about 18 hours ago
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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The Winchester Ghost Tours ⛓️👻⚰️💰🎅🎄
6 days ago
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/fentanyl-is-no-wmd-but-trumps-venezuela-claims-eerily-echo-bushs-arguments-for-invading-iraq/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Fentanyl%20is%20no%20WMD&utm_campaign=20251215%20Monday%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29
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#ChemicalWeapons
#Fentanyl
#USA
#Trump
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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[...] For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/fentanyl-is-no-wmd-but-trumps-venezuela-claims-eerily-echo-bushs-arguments-for-invading-iraq/
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Larry Neufeld
6 days ago
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/fentanyl-is-no-wmd-but-trumps-venezuela-claims-eerily-echo-bushs-arguments-for-invading-iraq/?utm_source=SocialShare&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_term
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Jessica McKenzie
6 days ago
ok omg was going to tweet something VERY SERIOUS about how this is the best fentanyl as "WMD" explainer but then i got to the kicker and i actually laughed out loud, millennial that i am no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/fentanyl-is-no-wmd-but-trumps-venezuela-claims-eerily-echo-bushs-arguments-for-invading-iraq/#post-heading
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Here we go again.
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/fentanyl-is-no-wmd-but-trumps-venezuela-claims-eerily-echo-bushs-arguments-for-invading-iraq/#post-heading
6 days ago
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Gregory Koblentz
9 days ago
@progmil.bsky.social
has the best arguments why this is a very bad idea
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FENTANYL IS NOT A CHEMICAL WEAPON
Wow, it's tiring to repeat this so often
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/fentanyl-is-not-a-chemical-weapon-e5c
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The ASD (ND-CBD) should not be a joint policy-acquisition position, but there it is.
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Defense Policy versus Defense Acquisition
It's a power play that hurts the Department's goals
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/defense-policy-versus-defense-acquisition
9 days ago
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Alex Wellerstein
15 days ago
My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins.
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The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein
https://alexwellerstein.com/writing/books/the-most-awful-responsibility/
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15 days ago
The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons.
@gregkoblentz.bsky.social
@thebulletin.org
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Curing a chemical hangover
Many tons of chemical warfare agents and precursors are still unaccounted for in Syria. The longer suspected weapons sites remain unexamined and insecure, the higher the risk that whatever chemical we...
https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/curing-a-chemical-hangover/#post-heading
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Some nuclear professional reading, if you're looking for recommendations
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Nuclear Professional Reading List
Just to round out your holiday shopping
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/nuclear-professional-reading-list
16 days ago
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Watching “Jurassic Park Rebirth” and I think I can feel my brain cells dying. What an incredibly poorly written show.
18 days ago
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Cheryl Rofer
19 days ago
Some comments as I read the National Security Strategy, released last night in an attempt to divert attention from, or perhaps to justify, killing fishermen on the high seas. What *Should* The United States Want? This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.
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19 days ago
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Anne Applebaum
19 days ago
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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Funny how the
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didn’t post its op-ed on (checks notes) extolling Charlie Kirk’s great humanitarian acts on BlueSky
20 days ago
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Looking for some reading recommendations for WMD books?
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The National Emergency with Respect to WMD Proliferation Continues
It's still a thing, even if no one talks about it. But you can read about it.
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/the-national-emergency-with-respect
23 days ago
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game!
24 days ago
I have taken the knowledge of the nuclear weaponry which you were probably saving for MAD forgive me the nuclei are so fast war so cold
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Karen Attiah
28 days ago
Collective, racist punishment.
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James
29 days ago
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It’s time to ratify the CTBT before this idea about nuclear testing takes off.
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It's Time to Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Before some idiot starts open-air nuclear tests as a way to measure masculinity
https://open.substack.com/pub/almauroni/p/its-time-to-ratify-the-comprehensive?r=2te5in&utm_medium=ios
about 1 month ago
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Kelsey Atherton
about 1 month ago
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
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How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-topple-maduro
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Our future ASD(ND-CBD) has had his confirmation hearing, but it doesn't reveal much.
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Bob Kadlec Speaks!
The nominated ASD(ND-CBD) gets his moment before the Senate Armed Services Committee
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/bob-kadlec-speaks
about 1 month ago
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If I'm going to watch a drama about nuclear weapons, I expect a better script
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Could We Write a Better Script?
Honestly, my last shot at "A House of Dynamite"
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/could-we-write-a-better-script
about 1 month ago
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Pluribus is a sci-fi series that starts with a scene at US Army Medical Institute for Infectious Diseases. How cool is that?
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about 2 months ago
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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼♀️🇲🇽🍉
about 2 months ago
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
about 2 months ago
on desktop, the path is gear icon--moderation--advanced--bluesky moderation, where I found that I was "helpfully" being shielded from "rude" content without having opted in to that
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A peacekeeping operation?? Was he awake between 2007 and 2011?
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about 2 months ago
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Nick Kodama
about 2 months ago
"I could smell the onions and mustard"
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How seriously do we examine the future threat of biological weapons? Not biological "threats," but actual nation-states developing biological weapons?
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Weighing the Future Threat of Biological Weapons
Is it a gut check you want or actual analytics?
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/weighing-the-future-threat-of-biological
about 2 months ago
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WaPo columnist thinks “A House of Dynamite” was just great
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The WaPo's Coverage of "A House of Dynamite" is Very Disappointing
I have some issues
https://open.substack.com/pub/almauroni/p/the-wapos-coverage-of-a-house-of?r=2te5in&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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Narrator’s voice: “In fact, we know exactly how they work and whether they will work.”
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about 2 months ago
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Fabian Hoffmann
about 2 months ago
Finally had time to watch House of Dynamite. Honestly, I expected worse. But it's frustrating, because with even a bit of research, they could have come up with a scenario that was both exciting enough for a movie and realistic. Instead, they went with one that makes no sense at all. 1/3
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The Oxford comma would have made it clear that it is not “the law” that is being injured and sickened. “Injured, sickens people, and tests the law”
#FIFY
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about 2 months ago
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”
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about 2 months ago
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Hans Kristensen
about 2 months ago
1/n - Trump says something about nuclear weapons tests...It’s hard to know what he means. As usual, he’s unclear, all over the map, and wrong. 1. The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Wrong. Russia has more nuclear weapons than the United States.
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle
about 2 months ago
I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post
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A House Of Dynamite - Much Ado About Nothing
YouTube video by The Critical Drinker
https://youtu.be/Q4LKuvAikso?si=gmJImxQx8ZwIPRL7
about 2 months ago
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I really didn't like the "A House of Dynamite" movie
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The Horrible, Shallow, Preachy Nuclear War Flick
The greatest horror was having to sit through the same story three times
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/the-horrible-shallow-preachy-nuclear
about 2 months ago
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The Atlantic Council released an interesting report on CBRN defense in Europe, but I suggest it has some significant flaws.
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Talking about CBRN Defense in Europe
Cold War Redux or Contemporary Need?
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/talking-about-cbrn-defense-in-europe
about 2 months ago
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New Steeler uniform? Not great, guys. Not great.
about 2 months ago
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Cheryl Rofer
about 2 months ago
And here it is!
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A House of Dynamite - Review - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This review probably contains spoilers. If you worry about such things, don’t read it. Geoff Brumfiel has capably summarized a few reactions relating to the authenticity of “A House of Dynamite.” That...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/a-house-of-dynamite-review
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Russell the Love Muscle 💪
about 2 months ago
OKAY FIRST OF ALL HE’S THE VILNIUS SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS WIFE DIDN’T LEAVE HIM, SHE DIED.
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Watched
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. Without spoilers, just going to say that I was underwhelmed and the ending was really disappointing. Great cast, lousy script. Will review next week.
about 2 months ago
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Amanda Kolson Hurley
2 months ago
I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
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I have a book review to offer this week.
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Book Review: "Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints"
I was on vacation last week and did not have the time to craft my usual commentary on recent news related to unconventional weapons.
https://almauroni.substack.com/p/book-review-chemical-warfare-a-study
2 months ago
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Gregory Koblentz
2 months ago
Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit
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David Rothkopf
2 months ago
When a bad man does a good thing, he does not cease to be a bad man. This is a complicated moment in the Middle East. Each of us must work to make sense of it. My latest.
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Joy. Sorrow. Fury. Disgust. And Hope. All at Once.
Reacting to this disorienting, misrepresented, misperceived moment in the Middle East.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidrothkopf/p/joy-sorrow-fury-disgust-and-hope?r=lsuuh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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