Nuclear War Threat Assessment – 9/1/24 – The DEFCON Warning System
This is the DEFCON Warning System. Alert status for 9 P.M. UTC, Sunday, September 1st, 2024. Condition code is Green. DEFCON 5.
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Nuclear War Threat Assessment – 8/1/24 – The DEFCON Warning System
This is the DEFCON Warning System. Alert status for 5 P.M. UTC, Thursday, August 1st, 2024. Condition code is Green. DEFCON 5.
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s China at war in the South China Sea? You be the judge. Beyond dispute its conduct is warlike—and that has implications
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Putin is about to lose his ‘Holy land’
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