Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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"...while European countries have tightened cooperation in other domains to strengthen transatlantic burden-sharing and hedge against reduced U.S. engagement in European defense, they have not developed dedicated European structures for space operations" spacenews.com/europe-is-re...
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weird thing here in centcom's statement on its airstrikes (on twitter, sorry) is that it says it lost a predator, not a reaper. that's an old and relatively cheap airframe, and the whole point is they don't have a pilot so we don't get too upset if one is downed
Wandering the woods in Lower Saxony this morning.
I'm old enough to remember when foreign nongovernmental actors fomenting stochastic violence was treated as a serious national security problem.
"South Korea has discussed a Japan-proposed bilateral military logistics support pact with Tokyo, although Seoul maintained its reservations over the matter, Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back said Sunday" en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2026...
I spoke to NPR about Hegseth's speech on the sidelines of the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue www.npr.org/2026/05/30/n...
Tranquil view during interesting conference at Protestant Academy Loccum in Germany discussing nuclear security issues in Europe. Lots of interesting speakers and views. Happy to contribute. www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/presse
We need to go through the images carefully, but Kim Jong Un seems to have visited the new uranium enrichment facility identified by the @iaeaorg.bsky.social last year and located by
@slair.bsky.social and yours truly at: 39.786° N, 125.759° E.
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Elon Musk personally and directly using his SpaceX social media firm to incite a pogrom in the UK. Which neither the British nor American governments seem to care about and for sure his 'rockets are cool!' online fans and whitewashing journalists don't
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
The U.S. defense secretary said there is "rightful alarm" of China's military build up. But he also struck a more moderate tone on U.S.-China relations – and notably sidestepped bringing up Taiwan.
