Now that Ukraine has taken Kherson, some experts fear Putin might feel cornered and yet resort to using nuclear weapons. Whether Putin will, of course, is uncertain. What isn’t, and what’s deeply weird in light of this worry, is that the United States continues to...
As the war in Ukraine drags on, daily developments at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant explode on our Google News screens. Last week, external power needed to prevent a core meltdown at the plant was cut off repeatedly, forcing reliance on emergency diesel generators. Meanwhile, Russians...
Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Biden opined that the risk of nuclear Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. His quip on the Ukraine war generated a flood of punditry. Earlier this week,...
As the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) prepares to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, we should be under no illusions: nothing it can do to check the plant’s safety can reduce the risks of it or other nuclear plants being hit in war. Those odds...
Late last week, the United States supported calls to create a demilitarized zone around the embattled Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear site. The State Department characterized fighting there as “dangerous and irresponsible.” What no U.S. official has yet said, however, is that the United States would not mount such...
When Russia first attacked the Ukrainian nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia in March, U.S. officials slammed Moscow for being reckless. Yet, when Russia announced earlier this month that it would hold a referendum that would effectively make the plant Russian property, U.S. officials were silent. Foggy...
With President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to sell Ukraine advanced General Atomic drones and HIMARS accurate multiple rocket launching systems, the war in Ukraine has moved further into a missile-driven conflict whose boundaries will increasingly be defined more by missile threats than any nuclear fulminations....
Last week, President Trump authorized the re-creation of the Air Force Space Command. Its aim is to make America great in space. In pursuit of putting America first though, it would be useful to pay attention to a smaller space faring nation — France, which...
Henry Sokolski and Patrick Malone discuss the effects of the US withdrawing from the INF and new restrictions on nuclear exports to China. Nov 14, 2018 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski and Patrick Malone What would a US withdrawal from INF entail? (part 1) What are the implications...
In 1977, the U.S. declassified the fact that in 1962 it had successfully tested a nuclear weapon using reactor-grade plutonium. In 1994 additional information about this test was released. Though on the face of it this test would seem to definitively settle the issue about whether reactor-grade...
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