The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.

A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody. The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.

innovation in war www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mr. Trump has chosen instead to “federalize” the units against the wishes of state and local leaders for “emergencies” that few outside his administration can see, particularly as national ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

“Today, nuclear war is mostly thought to be the stuff of history books: gruesome, uncomfortable and firmly in the past,” Spencer Cohen writes. But as the risk rises, a generation of young people is waking up to the threat.

Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"no danger to anyone" apnews.com/article/radi...

fascinating read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

It is Congress’ constitutional right to declare war — not the president’s — despite the wide latitude given to the White House during GWOT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

“If I could wave a wand” to make the H-bomb vanish, he once said, “I would.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

🚨 One week away! 🚨 Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats. Learn more and register: www.nti.org/events/nti-s...

reflective essay from seven eastern european foreign ministers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

"She recalled decoding a congratulatory note transmitted to a German sailor following the birth of his son. His submarine was sunk a few days later." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0

NEW FROM THE BORDER: Trump’s military border surge takes shape along U.S.-Mexico frontier www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Michigan is ground zero for Trump’s trade war, and tariffs are already starting to bite. “I don’t have 20% margin to give.”

I missed this story about the ISIS-affiliated insurgency in Mozambique in January. What strikes me about it are the photos—taken by the NYT’s Joao Silva, who lost both his legs in Afg in 2010. Joao is back photographing the tragedy of war—including other amputees. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/w...

SECDEF's standards www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.

This is truly the best publicity Signal could ever ask for, TBH.

amazing www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

confidence in US nuclear umbrella is waning www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...

Under Pentagon influence, the script of Godzilla (2014) underwent a striking transformation—shifting from a critical take on the U.S. military’s use of nuclear weapons in World War II to a more favorable portrayal. Read the research: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

[email protected] spoke to seven fired IGs about the abuses they uncovered, what they really think about DOGE and what all this means for the future of American democracy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What do President Trump’s first months in office tell us? Times Opinion writers will go live Thursday at 11 a.m. E.T. on Reddit to answer your questions. Submit them here: bit.ly/3XsSUaI

“I decided to provide information to the CIA because I think it was good for the people of Taiwan.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/a...

Did you know the Pentagon frequently provides U.S. officers and troops – whose salaries are paid by taxpayers, not studios – as consultants and extras to film productions? Read the research on the militarization of movies and TV: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p... #Oscars

If you're worried about measles in Texas, you need to read this excellent post by my colleagues Maria Godoy and @alykat.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/sho...

OTD 55 years ago, President Richard Nixon awarded the first and only Atomic Pioneer Awards to Vannevar Bush (director, Office of Scientific Research and Development), James Conant (chairman, National Defense Research Committee), and General Leslie Groves (military director of the Manhattan Project).

The hope, he said, is that the cartels will “step back away from fentanyl, and they’ll just go back to what they’ve always done, which is cocaine and methamphetamines and a little bit of heroin.” www.latimes.com/world-nation...

“We are seeing complete destruction of what once was a humanitarian response." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

USAF test-launched a Minuteman III ICBM into Pacific. Missile carried single unarmed reentry vehicle, probably Mk21 for W87 warhead. www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article... Delay of new Sentinel ICBM will require MM3 to operate much longer. Nuke Notebook: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Two months before the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end, with ceremonies already planned, they have demolished the main American outlet for making amends, shaking the foundation of a partnership meant to be a bulwark against China. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/w...

Trump administration's State Department says it will purchase $400 million in ❌Armored❌Teslas❌... (they meant Armored Electric Vehicles, apparently). www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

He flew 43 missions — almost one every other day — from late winter 1944 into the spring of 1945. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Following a White House anti-DEI order, the National Cryptologic Museum covered up exhibits of women and people of color in its Hall of Honor. The NSA reversed course after former employees mobilized.

ISIS analysis of claims Israel detonated a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon near Tartus in Syria isis-online.org/isis-reports...

the end of American soft power is going unchallenged. gizmodo.com/unelected-bi...

Weapons makers have spent $2.5 billion on lobbying over the past two decades. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

With Guantanamo back in the news following President Trump's executive order, readers have asked me to reprise a few articles. So, back by popular demand: We crunched the unclassified costs of the prison -- staffing it, feeding everybody etc. www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/u...

“an especially virulent case of Washington institutions trying to ram a foreign square peg into an American round hole.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...