The Nuclear 9/11 in Our Future
In my report Surprise Attack: ICBMs and the Real Nuclear Threat (2020), I warned that U.S. strategic cultural aversion to “thinking about
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Iran intensifies threats, heating up Middle East and Israel tensions – analysis
Iran’s regime looks to be moving toward a newly aggressive posture in the last week. This comes amid the Ukraine war as
Putin Still a Rational Man Who Won’t Use Nuclear Weapons, Top Experts Say
Despite the prevalence of opinions that Vladimir Putin has lost his mind, nuclear weapons experts continue to see the Russian president as
DEFCON Warning System – Update 3-13-22
This is the DEFCON Warning System. Alert status for 9 P.M. UTC, Sunday, March 13th, 2022. Condition code is Yellow. DEFCON 3.
Stalled and frustrated, Putin will likely ‘double down’ in the coming weeks, CIA says
CIA Director William Burns said Tuesday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen far short of Vladimir Putin’s expectations and that he
“I’ve studied the possible trajectories of the Russia-Ukraine war. None are good”
Wars sometimes start easily, but it is a tenet of strategy that they are always unpredictable and extremely hard to end. Putin’s
IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine
Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today that the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) had been disconnected from the electricity
Russia ‘has gone all in’: Does Putin have a way out of his war in Ukraine?
Ukraine is still standing. That may be a surprise to Russia as its invasion grinds toward a third destructive week. Not only
The Ukraine power plant fire was contained. But nuclear experts fear what’s to come in Russia’s war.
For a small tribe of veteran atomic experts who helped secure the Soviet Union’s nuclear energy and missiles as it started to
Report: US to lift sanctions from Iran. Netanyahu: Bennett and Lapid must act
The United States intends to remove as early as next week the sanctions imposed over the years on dozens of Iranian individuals
Russia Really Could Use A Nuclear Weapon In The Ukraine Conflict
For those of you who are new to The DEFCON Warning System, you’ve probably been seeing a lot of alarming messages. Doom!
DEFCON Warning System – Update 3/6/22
This is the DEFCON Warning System. Alert status for 9 P.M. UTC, Sunday, March 6th, 2022. Condition code is Yellow. DEFCON 3.