As a writer I try to remember that the fact that something annoys me personally does not necessarily make that thing important enough to write about
John Carl Baker
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nuclear weapons, foreign policy, antiquity, cocktails Words: Nation, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, NK News, US Institute of Peace, New Republic, elsewhere seniores tollunt omnia
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Data collection: completely fine as the basis of the domestic tech industry, super scary when China does it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...
"Now America has confirmed itself as a force of disorder and everyone is drawing lessons from it, and trying to be less dependent. No one wants to be subject to a whipsaw foreign policy that doesn’t know its limits, and that is a strategic defeat.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
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"The approach – reminiscent of the 1998 disaster film Armageddon but carried out entirely by uncrewed spacecraft – had lower technical complexity and better defence effectiveness than simply slamming a bomb into the asteroid, the researchers argued." www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid
China’s two-pronged method could blast apart an Earth-threatening space rock using a 3-megaton explosion equivalent to 200 Hiroshima bombs.
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People should study the 1996-1997 changeover because it is *stark* bsky.app/profile/bubb...
Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz · 2d agothis is actually a great counterexample to the "you only think music from when you were a teen was better because you were a teen" conventional wisdom when the music went from being impeccable to terrible in just 12 months
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG’s narrative about the Vietnam War is almost uncontroversial from the standpoint of 2026 - but it was definitely not received that way in 1968.
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Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Asahi Shimbun: "The international trust that Japan has built up in the postwar era by calling for the elimination and reduction of nuclear weapons under a non-nuclear policy must not be eroded." www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
EDITORIAL: Koizumi sets stage for review of non-nuclear principles | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has repeatedly touched upon the need for discussions related to nuclear weapons.
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"If the Trump administration submits this so-called deal for the required Congressional review, we will take all available steps...to reject any deal that fails to include the safeguards necessary to prevent Saudi Arabia from developing nuclear weapons.” garamendi.house.gov/2026/07/29/g...
Garamendi, Sherman, Beyer: Congress Must Reject Dangerous Trump-Saudi Nuclear Deal Without Safeguards - John Garamendi
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa Brad Sherman (CA-32), and the...
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North Korea's exports were up 30% last year as its post-pandemic recovery continues - still a lot lower than 2017 though en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
N. Korea's exports hit 8-year high in 2025: data | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's exports rose sharply to an eight-year high i...
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Oh wow - in a message ostensibly commemorating the Korean War armistice, Trump said that the "same communist ambition that once sought to conquer the Korean Peninsula is trying to rear its ugly head once more - this time in the West." en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
Trump says S. Korea, U.S. remain 'united' in 'steadfast' alliance in armistice anniv. message | Yonhap News Agency
By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, July 28 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump has said Sou...
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"An order in which Asian countries assume greater responsibility for their own defense and rely more on one another — and less on an increasingly distracted United States — could ultimately prove stable and secure. At any rate, it is unavoidable." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
Opinion | A New Security Order Is Taking Shape in Asia
Asian countries are starting to shoulder more of the burden of their own defense, and the region could be stronger and more stable for it.
nytimes.com
This project was awesome to build out. Take a look here for more on how we built a nuclear-use scenario that presents a full spectrum of consequences and risks for players to manage.
Council on Strategic Risks@councilonstrategicrisks.org · last wk.Nuclear weapons risks don't exist in a vacuum. A new exercise produced by @convergingriskslab.bsky.social models how the use of a tactical nuclear weapon compounds and combines existing ecological, technological, and strategic concerns. Check out the full breakdown 👇 🤝 @ploughshares.bsky.social
Abolishing ICE is not a fringe position - nearly half the country supports it yougov.com/en-us/articl...
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"So long as denuclearization remains the entry fee for dialogue, Pyongyang has little reason to bargain and every incentive to deepen its reliance on Moscow and Beijing." www.scmp.com/opinion/asia...
Opinion | America’s North Korea strategy needs a dose of reality
Washington’s dogged insistence on denuclearisation first has led to a prolonged deadlock that has only widened Pyongyang’s options.
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
Iran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence Says
The previous supreme leader, who was killed early in the war, had renounced nuclear weapons. U.S. spy agencies believe his son is more interested in building a bomb.
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Matt Kroenig has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for Trump's nuclear policies - and even he thinks this deal is bad www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The Saudi Nuclear Deal Invites Disaster
Allowing Riyadh to enrich uranium would open the door to proliferation in the Middle East and beyond.
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Saw some video art from the 70s at MoMA this weekend and the critique of television being “you are the product” hits both differently and harder in an era when everything has become TV
“For the most part the intentions of kings are as volatile as they are severe, and often self-contradictory.” - Sallust