Helpful to show up the convenience store with a lot of plutonium, though. www.aec.go.jp/bunya/04/plu...

National Security Adviser Signals Push for Separate US Deal on Nuclear-Powered Submarines world.kbs.co.kr/service/news...

Okay so at least we know now that Starshield has its own terminals: "The award includes seven Starshield terminals to be installed at the three Deep Space Network sites in Australia, California and Spain." spacenews.com/nasa-to-test...

There have been plenty of "Japan should have a discussion about revising 3NNP" or "Art 9 doesn't prohibit the possession of nukes" comments, but the closest to a "Japan *should* get nukes" like this that I can recall is Vice Defense Minister Nishimura in 1999 www.armscontrol.org/act/1999-11/...

We're in a new nuclear landscape. Author @nktpnd.bsky.social's new book, The New Nuclear Age: At The Precipice of Armageddon, attempts to explain the changes that have occurred – why, how, and what can be done about it. Read the Q&A with @zoemas0n.bsky.social ⬇️

Advanced Balatro. (Cryptid Mod.)

"Sky's analysis, based on data from internet registry APNIC, suggests that one in five Starlink users (21%) are accessing the service from countries where the company has no licence to operate – such as Sudan, Myanmar and Iraq."

NEW NUGGETS: So that's the very quick overview of the story. Here are the NEW NUCLEAR NUGGETS about the Reactor Pilot Program for the real nerds. This is stuff I haven't seen reported elsewhere... ☢️🤓🧵 www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...

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Appreciated this opportunity to speak to @outrider.org about my book outrider.org/nuclear-weap...

In this @foreignaffairs.com essay, I discuss why the killing spree at sea is so different from the US armed conflicts with AQ, ISIS, etc. The "whatabout Obama" talking point is extremely weak sauce. www.foreignaffairs.com/central-amer...

“When we start talking about things like space-based interceptor, I've got to flip that equation on its head,” he said. “I've got to have high magazine depth, low cost per shot. How do I do that?”

The War on Woke has taken too much from us. Can't even say MX anymore.

I have a new article for @carnegieendowment.org: If Trump still wants to engage North Korea, he should make it clear at next year's state of the union. The US should adopt a "stable coexistence" framework. Read here: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Detainees, often with no criminal record, were subjected to what is unambiguously torture at Ron DeSantis' so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. There need to be criminal prosecutions

My expectations are generally low, but I'm still pretty stunned by the sorts of people who should know better that are sane-washing this NSS.

Call me when we have the Carl's Jr. Peace Prize.

49 instances of the word "Europe" in the new NSS. (35 in 2022 NSS and 29 in 2017 NSS.)

Currently reading this and learning so much.

On Legal Justifications

The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.

"....over 1,000 initial winners" breakingdefense.com/2025/12/mda-...

India Clinches $2 Billion Russia Submarine Deal as Putin Visits www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

More evidence of the United States in the transnational repression business.

"Acting U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Kevin Kim and Admiral Daryl Caudle publicly linked the ROK’s pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines to countering China this week" koreapro.org/2025/11/nucl...

Quite enjoyed this chat with Nick about his new book on neuroscience and war.

Missile defence in focus as China, Russia generals pledge deeper cooperation www.scmp.com/news/china/m...

Can South Korea afford the many costs of nuclear-powered submarines? My latest for @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/19/t...

Sector-specific export collapse presented as good news.

Today in 1952, the Boston Globe published an article by science writer Michael Amrine sharing the news that the hydrogen bomb—successfully tested for the first time 18 days earlier but not yet deployed—would enable the United States to conduct mass slaughter for the low, low cost of $1 per person.

Now reading: @wellerstein.bsky.social's new book!

It was awesome to sit down with @nktpnd.bsky.social on the reemergence of tactical nuclear weapons and the various scenarios I worry are becoming more likely. Listen in and check out more from his excellent show!

New book from @wellerstein.bsky.social , the foremost historian of the nuclear age. (Also, one of my favorite people.) www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Convenient if you're Anthropic, in a way.

"The company said human operators accounted for 10 to 20 percent of the work required to conduct the operation." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...

"The United States has given approval for the ROK to build nuclear-powered attack submarines. The United States will work closely with the ROK to advance requirements for this shipbuilding project, including avenues to source fuel." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Hmm. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“...real-world presidents are probably unprepared for the burden imposed by their sole authority to order a nuclear strike.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/n...

Have had a post in Substack drafts now for months that I need to finish on why SBIs invite a world of fast-ascending (think Sprint ABM), nuclear-tipped DA-ASAT weapons.

Trump's deal with South Korea bogged down in details over submarine www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Pakistan’s Army Chief Is Granted Sweeping Authority Over All Military Branches www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

Big kulaks hoarding grain energy here.

I have an idea.

The more important question is why Democrats everywhere are responsible for whatever happens in San Francisco or New York but Republicans don't have to spend huge amounts of time weighing in on the Texas GOP party platform.

Many people are very annoyed that this is true. (Including me!)

I miss living in Astoria (and Jackson Heights).

Dick Cheney, among other things, directed the single largest drawdown of nuclear weapons in US history at the end of the Cold War www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/D...

All nuclear explosions are supercritical. He probably means “hydronuclear” — slightly supercritical with insignificant fission release (<1 lb). The US conducted ~35 during the 1958-1961 test moratorium. As a Harvard-educated lawyer, he can understand this—if it’s to his benefit.

Many thoughts (good and bad) on House of Dynamite, but Greta Lee as the NIO for North Korea is 💯.