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| 22.11.2024 | The New Era of Warfare: Russia's Bold Missile Strike on Ukraine | The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has entered a perilous new chapter. On November 21, 2024, Russia launched a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at Dnipro, Ukraine. This marked a significant escalation in a war that has a... |
| 22.11.2024 | Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says | MOSCOW: Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro on Thursday (Nov 21) in response to the US and UK allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons, in a further escalation ... |
| 21.11.2024 | Russia fires intercontinental ballistic missile in attack on Ukraine, Kyiv says | KYIV: Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday (Nov 21), Kyiv's air force said, in what would be the first use in war of a weapon designed to deliver long-distance nuclear strikes.
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| 14.10.2024 | Commentary: Russia’s turn towards North Korea for help in Ukraine war fuels Kim’s nuclear ambitions | Listen to this article
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| 06.10.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Jill Lawrence: Everyone who grasps the risk of nuclear war says Trump shouldn’t be trusted | A volatile temperament is one of the many reasons Trump is a national security menace. As Hillary Clinton memorably noted in her 2016 convention speech accepting the Democratic nomination: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we ca... |
| 28.07.2024 | Ядерные тепловые ракеты | Мы снова строим ядерные космические корабли - на этот раз по-настоящему.
Военные и NASA, похоже, серьезно настроены создать демонстрационное оборудование.
22.07.2024, Яцек Кривко, arstechnica.com
Художественная концепция демонстрационного к... |
| 23.02.2024 | It may look like Trump scared NATO back into readiness — but it's probably all down to Putin | Military & Defense It may look like Trump scared NATO back into readiness — but it's probably all down to Putin
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| 20.02.2024 | Putin gave Kim Jong Un a luxury Russian car, deepening their war bromance and ignoring sanctions to do it | Politics Putin gave Kim Jong Un a luxury Russian car, deepening their war bromance and ignoring sanctions to do it
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| 19.02.2024 | Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts aren't panicked — yet | Military & Defense Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts aren't panicked — yet
Analysis by Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
2024-02-19T01:52:59Z
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| 15.02.2024 | US lawmakers were just briefed on intel that Russia is trying to put a nuclear weapon in space: reports | Military & Defense US lawmakers were just briefed on intel that Russia is trying to put a nuclear weapon in space: reports
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2024-02-15T09:14:45Z
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| 04.08.2023 | Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows | The International Space Station looking like a white dot as it passes the Moon as seen from Liverpool. Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images
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| 10.06.2023 | Iran Update, June 9, 2023 | AFGHANISTAN, June 10 - Iran Update, June 9, 2023
Andie Parry, Ashka Jhaveri, Johanna Moore, Amin Soltani, Annika Ganzeveld, and Nicholas Carl
The Iran Update aims to inform national security policy by providing timely, relevant, and indepen... |
| 06.04.2023 | Making Unilateral Norms for Military AI Multilateral | The speed and pitfalls of artificial intelligence (AI) development are on public display thanks to the race for dominance among leading AI firms following the public release of ChatGPT. One area where this “arms race” mentality could have g... |
| 24.03.2023 | The nuclear education of Vladimir Putin | In his speech to the Russian Federal Assembly last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would stop allowing onsite U.S. inspections of its nuclear arsenal. These inspections are required by the New Strategic Arms Re... |
| 23.03.2023 | A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb | Nuclear warheads, like the one shown here, are short- and long-term killers. gerasimov_foto_174/Shutterstock
Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world.
Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less ... |
| 16.03.2023 | 2.5 Tons of Uranium Went Missing From Uncontrolled Site in Libya, According to UN | John Lopez, Tech Times 16 March 2023, 11:03 am
A UN nuclear watchdog recently discovered 2.5 tons of natural uranium missing from a Libyan plant. The site in question is not controlled by the government.
Atomic energy regulators are already... |
| 09.03.2023 | Russia Raises Stakes With Wave Of Hypersonic Missile Attacks On Ukraine | Russia launched a wave of missiles and drones at Ukraine last night in the biggest strike for weeks, again targeting the electricity infrastructure, causing blackouts and civilians deaths at several locations across the country. In one sens... |
| 02.03.2023 | Unpacking Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy | Nearly a year and a half after Reuters first reported the expected release of the Biden administration’s conventional arms transfer (CAT) policy, the CAT is out of the bag. On Feb. 23, the White House announced the release of its long-antic... |
| 04.02.2023 | Around the halls: Brookings experts on Biden’s performance in the Middle East | Suzanne Maloney on stalled diplomacy and mass protest in Iran.
Halfway into his term, President Biden faces a conundrum on Iran. He entered office determined to reverse his predecessor’s decision to exit the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Tehran’s... |
| 20.11.2022 | Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All | Editor’s Note: Although the science of biotechnology is moving forward at breakneck speed, regulation, diplomatic agreements, and other forms of control remain limited at best. Stanford University’s Megan Palmer, Georgetown’s Andrew Imbrie ... |
| 25.09.2022 | How to Overcome the Pitfalls of the Saudi-Iran Dialogue | Editor’s Note: The Saudi-Iran dialogue continues, but has produced little progress. As James Jeffrey of the Wilson Center and Bilal Saab of the Middle East Institute argue, part of the reason is that the two powers have fundamentally differ... |
| 06.09.2022 | Russia is buying artillery shells from North Korea, US intel says, a sign of desperation as sanctions bite | Russian President Vladimir Putin with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in April 2019. ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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Russia has bought ammunition from North Korea, according to a newly declassified report seen ... |
| 26.08.2022 | It Is the Player, but Mostly the Game | Earlier this summer, the United States offered to free convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for Moscow’s release of two American nationals: Women’s National Basketball Association star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul... |
| 16.08.2022 | Pariahs And Pals: Emerging Russo-Iranian Energy Cooperation. | The war in Ukraine is causing Russia to get closer to pariah nations: Belarus, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, to mention a few. This is probably not the multi-polar world Vladimir Putin, and before him the Russian geopolitical heavyweigh... |
| 08.07.2022 | Why further sanctions against North Korea could be tough to add | During last week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Madrid, the leaders of the United States, South Korea, and Japan held a trilateral meeting. The lead topic: security concerns about North Korea, which reportedly has completed ... |
| 24.05.2022 | Opportunity to Reform the Department of Homeland Security’s Biodefense Operations and Governance | The present moment is ripe to reform biodefense efforts concerning homeland security. First, the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine demonstrate both the actual harms and potentially devastating consequences of biological events. Th... |
| 12.05.2022 | Op-ed | U.S. Antisatellite Test Ban Reveals a New Approach for Security and Sustainability in Space | On April 18, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a U.S. commitment to forgo “destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing.” This carefully designed ban has the potential to be the first step in a new approach to security and ... |
| 24.04.2022 | How Emerging Technology Is Breaking Arms Control | Editor’s Note: New technologies are emerging at a dizzying pace, and arms control agreements cannot seem to keep up. My Brookings colleague Amy Nelson examines how the increased speed of technological change is creating holes in existing ar... |
| 04.04.2022 | Military space chiefs from 15 countries gather amid growing security concerns | Raymond: 'We are going to focus on how to mature our partnerships'
COLORADO SPRINGS – The United States this week will host the third gathering of international military space chiefs in Colorado Springs.
“We are going to focus on how to mat... |
| 08.02.2022 | Biden has merely rebranded the brutal war against Yemen | People protest airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against a prison in Saadah Province, a Houthi stronghold in Yemen, January 22, 2022 Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images
In February 2021, President Joe Biden vowed that the war in Yemen, where S... |
| 04.01.2022 | Why China changed its mind about nuclear weapons and is bulking up its arsenal at ‘accelerated’ pace | Chinese DF-41 ICBMs in a military parade in Beijing, October 1, 2019. Liu Bin/Xinhua via Getty
China’s rapid military expansion in recent years has alarmed other countries.
China’s nuclear arsenal is much smaller than the US’s, but US offic... |
| 29.11.2021 | Space Force official: Satellites in orbit have become pawns in geopolitical chess games | Lt. Gen. Saltzman: 'We are seeing a shift to where the first strike advantages are encountered in space'
WASHINGTON — China and Russia for decades have watched the United States display its military power, much of it enabled by satellites i... |
| 17.11.2021 | Op-ed | Lessons to learn from Russia’s Nudol ASAT test | Russia’s generation of a large amount of space debris deserves condemnation from the United States and others. However, we must also understand why Russia did what it did. This event carries two essential lessons for the United States.
Firs... |
| 21.09.2021 | After Her Nuclear Disaster Dress Rehearsal, Cynthia Lazaroff Has A Wake-Up Call For Our World As We Sleepwalk Into Nuclear Extinction | Cynthia Lazaroff’s wake-up call came on the morning of January 13, 2018, when, along with all ... [+] Hawaiian residents, she received this text.Cynthia Lazaroff |
| 08.08.2021 | A shadowy fight between Israel and Iran is at risk of becoming a bigger war. Here’s how their militaries stack up. | A January 2016 photo of the Mercer Street oil tanker off Cape Town, South Africa. Johan Victor via AP
An attack on a tanker in the Arabian Sea last week killed two civilian crew members.
It appears to be the latest strike in a years-long sh... |
| 08.08.2021 | A shadowy fight between Israel and Iran is at risk of becoming a bigger war. Here's how their militaries stack up. | A January 2016 photo of the Mercer Street oil tanker off Cape Town, South Africa. Johan Victor via AP
An attack on a tanker in the Arabian Sea last week killed two civilian crew members.
It appears to be the latest strike in a years-long sh... |
| 02.06.2021 | U.S. Navy Funds New Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile Biden Called ‘A Bad Idea’ (UPDATED - Acting Navy Secretary Wants To Defund) | Budget documents reveal the U.S. Navy is developing a new nuclear-armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile, known as SLCM-N. President Biden described the missile as “a bad idea” when campaigning in 2019. Though an obvious candidate for cancelatio... |
| 07.02.2021 | How to Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Without Signing It | Editor’s Note: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which outlaws nuclear weapons, entered force just after Biden’s inauguration. Although the Biden administration is highly unlikely to adhere to it directly, can it take... |
| 02.02.2021 | Time To Focus On The Real Challenges To Global Security | In his recent essay in Defense News, former Senate Armed Services Committee chair James Inhofe (R-OK) has done us all a service by inadvertently revealing all that is wrong with the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy. |
| 11.01.2021 | US aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China both have plans to change that | A Chinese DF-21D missile is driven past an image of the Great Wall of China, in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, September 3, 2015. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images
US Navy aircraft carriers have been a dominant force on the world’s oceans for de... |
| 09.11.2020 | Better Informing a President’s Decision on Nuclear Use | Over the past four years, many Americans have been surprised to learn that a U.S. president can order a nuclear strike at a moment’s notice without the approval of any other official. Though the president might be expected to consult with t... |
| 15.10.2020 | Civil Nuclear Cooperation Through 123 Agreements: A Primer | News of Saudi Arabia’s alleged undeclared nuclear cooperation with China to extract uranium yellowcake from uranium ore has generated bipartisan concern from U.S. lawmakers over the kingdom’s nuclear weapons intentions, and it may stoke exi... |
| 10.09.2020 | Trump Is A Hypocrite, But He’s Right About The Military-Industrial Complex | Earlier this week, President Trump caused a stir among defense intellectuals by acknowledging an unspoken truth about U.S. foreign policy––that military decisions are often influenced by capital. “I’m not saying the military is in love with... |
| 09.09.2020 | What Weapons Might Iran Export After The U.N. Arms Embargo Expires? | Iran may very soon be able to legally sell its domestically produced weapons to other countries. |
| 16.08.2020 | The Growing Risk of Inadvertent Escalation Between Washington and Beijing | Editor’s Note: China is becoming more aggressive in Asia, and the potential for a confrontation with the United States is growing. Kurt Campbell of the Asia Group and Ali Wyne of the Atlantic Council explain the possible logics behind China... |
| 12.08.2020 | Democrats And Republicans Agree: Phase Out Land-Based Nuclear Missiles | Although Democrats and Republicans increasingly seem worlds apart, when it comes to nuclear weapons issues, they’re actually much closer than one might think. |
| 26.07.2020 | Should Congress Play a Role in Arms Sales? | Editor’s Note: The Trump administration’s proposal to end the informal practice of notifying Congress well in advance of major arms sales is a departure from long-standing norms and a means of decreasing congressional interference in contro... |
| 25.06.2020 | The U.S. Should Communicate in the Jus ad Bellum Lexicon to Strengthen Its Deterrence Posturing | Editor’s Note: In a previous post related to this topic, the authors argue the U.S.’s reliance on the Rules of Engagement has failed to provide strong legal bases for its threats to use force in self-defense.
Deterrence has always been a ce... |
| 19.06.2020 | Why Was Tear Gas Used to Quell American Protests? | In the wake of George Floyd’s death, a firestorm of protests has swept the United States. Some protests have been violent, though most have been peaceful. In cities around the country, curfews have been implemented as heavily armed police h... |
| 09.06.2020 | How Not to Blunder Into a Nuclear War | Current U.S. strategic doctrine is dangerously misguided, so much so that it actually makes nuclear war more likely. That’s the conclusion of an essential new book by former Secretary of Defense William Perry and Tom Collina, the Director o... |
| 31.05.2020 | Using a Terrorism List to Squeeze Cuba and Venezuela | Editor’s Note: The State Department recently added Cuba to the list of countries that are not cooperating fully on counterterrorism, a reversal of Obama administration efforts to improve relations with Havana. Jason Blazakis of the Middlebu... |
| 13.05.2020 | How To Head Off the Next Nuclear Arms Race | Donald Trump is no fan of international agreements, to put it mildly. Among many other examples, he has renounced the Iran nuclear deal, the Paris Climate Accord, and the treaty to limit medium-range nuclear-armed missiles in Europe. Now hi... |
| 28.04.2020 | Proliferated Nuclear Ethics | Nuclear weapons terrified even George Kennan, the ice-blooded U.S. diplomat and Cold War strategist, who said in 1977, “No one is good enough, wise enough, steady enough, to have control over the volume of explosives that now rest in the ha... |
| 22.04.2020 | When Can the President Withdraw From the Open Skies Treaty? | Several weeks ago, in early April 2020, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly agreed to begin withdrawing the United States from the Treaty on Open Skies, a multilateral agreement that facilitates rec... |
| 27.02.2020 | One Year From Expiration, 'New START' Remains in Limbo | Even though the New START Treaty expires in less than a year, parties reached no agreement on its future during the recent U.S.-Russia security dialogue in Vienna. New START is the only nuclear arms agreement in force between the United Sta... |
| 16.01.2020 | How the President Launches a Nuke | The President of the United States, Donald Trump, can launch a nuclear weapon whenever he wants. There exists no check on this authority. He doesn’t need to run the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon in the history of the world... |
| 20.12.2019 | Opinion: Paul Eaton: Gardner must help prevent arms race and support New START extension | By Paul Eaton
When I arrived at Fort Carson to serve as a lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Division at the beginning of my career, the world was in the middle of a nuclear arms race that had never been seen before. Russia and the United Sta... |
| 30.07.2019 | Jettisoning Arms Control Endangers America’s Edge in Great-power Politics | Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
The Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy identified the “reemergence of long-term, strategic competition” with China and Russia as the foremost threat to U.S. ... |
| 24.07.2019 | Eisenhower's worst nightmare: Pentagon merger-mania is back | Isaac Brekken/Getty Images
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A looming merger between Raytheon and United Technologies is poised to produce another defense industry giant.
Such mergers are common, but the influence of those firms and the primacy of the Pentagon i... |
| 15.07.2019 | Disappearing Transparency in U.S. Arms Sales | In the nearly two decades since 9/11, the United States has increasingly relied on security assistance programs to train, advise and equip foreign military and police forces in an effort to fight threats before they reach the United States.... |
| 05.05.2019 | If the U.S. Rejoins the JCPOA, Iran’s Power Will Not Be Unshackled | Editor’s Note: Critics of the Trump administration worry that its decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal will haunt successor administrations. Iran, they fear, will emerge stronger and even more aggressive. Thomas Juneau of the Uni... |
| 27.01.2019 | Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea and Iran: From Transformational to Transactional | Editor’s Note: Iran and North Korea have posed thorny problems for multiple U.S. administrations. The Trump administration, however, is trying a new tack, hoping to transform the regimes and eschewing intermediate steps. Robert Litwak of th... |
| 27.11.2018 | Revisiting the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons | One year ago, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize for its advocacy that contributed to the first legally binding treaty ban of nuclear weapons: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, al... |
| 26.11.2018 | These are the nine countries which own the world's most devastating weapons | An estimated 14,485 nuclear weapons exist.
Andrew Linnett/Ministry of Defence Crown/Getty
The United Nations has introduced a treaty that it believes will eventually lead to the total elimination of nuclear weapons. A recent watchdog report... |
| 25.10.2018 | U.S. Withdrawal From the INF Treaty: The Facts and the Law | President Trump announced on Oct. 20 that the United States would pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a 1987 bilateral agreement prohibiting the United States and Russia from possessing, producing or test-flying ... |
| 19.04.2018 | Chemical attacks on Iran: When the US looked the other way | US President Donald Trump announced on Friday the operation against Syria, framing his decision as a fight against “evil” while saying days earlier that preventing chemical attacks is “about humanity”.
He lashed out at Iran and Russia for s... |
| 02.04.2018 | The Al-Kibar Strike: What a Difference 26 Years Make | Israel has experienced, quite literally, a blast from the past. For the first time, Israel officially acknowledged operation “Outside the Box”—the September 2007 strike that destroyed the Al-Kibar nuclear reactor, located in the Dier Al-Zou... |
| 06.03.2018 | Your retirement plan probably funds nuclear weapons - here are the top 20 biggest companies and their investors | Reuters/Department of Defense
A B-2 bomber drops a nuclear bomb casing during an exercise.
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A new report highlights private investments in companies that work on nuclear weapons systems.
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| 09.02.2018 | Summary of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review | The Nuclear Posture Review is a legislative-mandated review undertaken by the Department of Defense that outlines U.S. nuclear policy, strategy, capabilities and force posture for the next five to 10 years. Below is a summary of key takeawa... |
| 05.11.2017 | Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns | Editor’s Note: One of the most successful NGO anti-war efforts was the campaign to ban landmines, which led to a treaty banning their use and production in 1997. Activists, not surprisingly, are using this model as they focus on other techn... |
| 30.07.2017 | Preventing a Nuclear 9/11: State-Based Strategies to Deter Non-State Threats | Editor’s Note: Non-proliferation has been an imperfect but real policy success in the modern era. However, the emergence of the North Korean program and continued problems with other nuclear weapons states raise the risk of additional proli... |
| 16.07.2017 | Understanding the Iran Nuclear Deal through the Lens of the Iran-Iraq War | Editor’s Note: The Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran remains one of its most important, and most contentious, foreign-policy legacies. Much of the controversy in the United States stems from the question of whether Iran might ch... |
| 20.04.2017 | The plan to make America’s nukes great again could go horribly wrong | It was nearly 2 o’clock in the morning on Oct. 23, 2010, when an Air Force lieutenant called from his base in Wyoming to report the nightmare scenario unfolding before him. Fifty intercontinental ballistic missiles — each tipped with a nucl... |
| 16.04.2017 | Donald Trump’s Surprising Defense of International Norms | Editor’s Note: The United States in general, and the Trump administration in particular, is often accused of not matching its deeds to its rhetoric. When the Trump administration decided to use force against the Syrian regime after it condu... |
| 10.05.2016 | Obama's Visit to Hiroshima Raises Scrutiny of U.S. Arsenal
Obama's Visit to Hiroshima Raises Scrutiny of U.S. Arsenal | President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, Japan, on May 27, becoming the first sitting American president to set foot in the city once devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb, where he will again call for the world to rid itself of nuclear weap... |
| 06.02.2016 | As North Korea Prepares to Launch a Rocket, Everyone Else Prepares to Freak Out About It | North Korea has announced that it intends to launch a observation satellite into orbit sometime in the next week, exercising what it declares to be its national right to pursue a space program. Pyongyang told two United Nations agencies thi... |
| 28.09.2015 | Venezuela Trolls the US by Pledging to Fight the War on Drugs With Russian Fighter Jets | Any story that touches on nukes, cocaine, and cutting-edge Russian military hardware ought to be at least as exciting as the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the truth is probably a lot less entertaining and just plain sad.
Venezuelan President Ni... |
| 21.09.2015 | Don’t Get Too Excited About A US-China Arms Control Agreement for Cyber | David Sanger reported over the weekend that “the United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will not be the first to use cyberweapon... |
| 21.10.2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | According to Reuters, the United Kingdom has authorized “spy planes and armed drones to fly surveillance missions over Syria.” London’s statement that it would send Reaper drones and Rivet Joint surveillance aircraft to the embattled Middle... |
| 15.09.2014 | The Week That Will Be | Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Lawfare Event Calender to bring you: The Future of Civilian Robotics. Monday, September 15th at 2 pm: Governance Studies at Brookings will hold ... |
| 13.04.2014 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Preventing the Proliferation of Armed Drones | Editor’s Note: Drone warfare and its many implications is a favorite subject for Lawfare readers. Yet even as the United States develops policies for the use of drones on and off the battlefield, it must contend with their proliferation to ... |
| - | Iran’s upcoming snap elections: A battle of anti-western hardliners | Iran is holding snap elections on June 28 following the sudden death of former Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
Iran’s ultra-conservative Guardian Council, which ultimately decides who is allowed on the ballot, has app... |
| - | India's ballistic missiles could be a game-changer | Redeem now
Indian soldiers stand beside India's surface-to-surface missile "Prithvi" during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2006. Prithvi, which means earth in Sanskrit, is a nuclear-capable missile. Kamal Kishore... |
| - | Iran faces runoff election between reformist and ultra-conservative presidential candidates amid record low turnout | Iran is headed for a runoff election on Friday, July 5, that will see an ultra-right-wing hard-liner compete against a reformist during a time of intense economic, social and geopolitical challenges.
Amid record-low voter turnout of around ... |
| - | Iran has voted in a reformist president — but change remains distant | Described as a "token reformist" and "second-tier candidate" by many analysts, the 69-year-old Pezeshkian, a former heart surgeon, was seen as having scant chance at the presidency.
The president-elect "faces substa... |
| - | Here’s what the U.S.′ enemies — and allies — might see from Marco Rubio as secretary of State | President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. Marco Rubio as his secretary of State, arguably the world’s most important diplomat, could change the dial when it comes to the U.S.′ relationship with both its enemies, and its allies.
Rubio, c... |
| - | Putin and Lukashenko falsely claim British operatives committed the atrocities in Bucha | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his closest ally, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, unveiled a new theory on Tuesday about who was behind the atrocities committed in Bucha, Ukraine while the town was occupied by Russian troops... |
| - | From Hype to Backlash: Is Public Opinion on AI Shifting? | Interest online around new AI companies, concepts and pitches remains as frothy as ever. A widely-shared thread over the weekend by Silicon Valley computer scientist Dr. Patrik Desai instructs readers to begin recording their elders, as he ... |
| - | The F-14 Tomcat: a 'Top Gun' legend and Iran's best fighter jet | An F-14D Tomcat on a mission over the Persian Gulf, October 10, 2005. US Navy/Lt. j.g. Scott Timmester
For the second week in a row, "Top Gun: Maverick" is the number-one box office draw.
The "Top Gun" series made the US... |
| - | Why China changed its mind about nuclear weapons and is bulking up its arsenal at 'accelerated' pace | Chinese DF-41 ICBMs in a military parade in Beijing in 2019. Liu Bin/Xinhua via Getty
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China's rapid military expansion in recent years has alarmed other countries.
Its nuclear arsenal is much smaller than the US's, but US officia... |
| - | The new arms race on the Korean Peninsula | The launch on Thursday of a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, by North Korea is the latest test in a growing arms race between North and South Korea.
Flying for more than 67 minutes, the missile reached a height 15 tim... |
| - | Haven Energy Wants to Simplify Battery Installation for California Homeowners | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
In December, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to radically change the net... |
| - | Infographic: The impact of nuclear tests around the world | August 29 marks the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The day, declared by the United Nations in 2009, aims to raise awareness of the effects of nuclear weapons testing and achieve a nuclear-weapons-free world.
On July 16, 1945, duri... |
| - | U.S. accuses Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine, in breach of global ban | The U.S. accused Russia of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops.
The U.S. State Department also assessed that Russia has used “riot control agents,” or tear gas, as a method of warfare in Ukraine, also in violation of the Chemica... |
| - | Iran votes for its new president amid economic strife, crackdowns and regional war | Iran is voting in a snap election following the unexpected death of former President Ibrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash — and the result could have implications far beyond its borders.
All but one of the candidates approved to run are cons... |
| - | PodcastOne Aims to Become the First Publicly-Traded Podcasting Powerhouse | PodcastOne, a division of audio streaming and event company LiveOne, is planning to go public in a deal that would make it the first Los Angeles podcast-exclusive audio company to be publicly traded.
Several of PodcastOne’s biggest competit... |
| - | Iran elects reformist Masoud Pezeshkian in presidential runoff vote | Iran elected Masoud Pezeshkian to its presidency, in an unexpected victory for the country’s reformist camp amid deep social discontent, economic hardship, and regional war.
The 69-year-old former minister will serve for four years as the h... |
| - | Twitter Goes to War With Substack | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Substack announced a new feature this week called “Notes,” which will allow users to publ... |
| - | BENLabs' New Tool Is Helping Creators Scale with Data-Driven Insights | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
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