At an art museum, reading about a sculpture that was rejected by its commissioners because they didn’t like the male subject’s facial expression.
Daughter: “What’s “belligerent?”
Me: “Pete Hegseth.”
Daughter: “Got it”
excellent piece with great insights from my friends and colleagues @matthew-bunn.bsky.social @scottroecker.bsky.social and Andrew Weber.
www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/
Bottom line - US could remove HEU from Iran easily if Iran agrees and maybe without. But no military solution to Iran nuclear issue.
Here's the "60 Minutes" piece on Iran's HEU and the example of Project Sapphire removing HEU from Kazakhstan decades ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev0h...
An ancient stone carving of the god of corn with a magnificent headdress.
Pitao Cozobi, the Zapotec god of thunder, water, and therefore corn (which you can see in his headdress). From Mexico’s treasure trove of marvelous ancient creativity, the anthropological museum.
It was carefully measured by international inspectors prior to the June 2025 strikes.
Importantly, Sapphire was done with knowledge and cooperation of the host government (Kazakhstan). It took a month. It was not done under fire in enemy territory
Excited to be on 60 Minutes tonight discussing Iran’s HEU and other nuclear capabilities!
Shared, so you don’t have to worry about the payroll. The piece I wrote in January 2015, long before Trump actually became the nominee.
Norm Ornstein on the eight causes of Trumpism: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Iran hawks say without the complete destruction of all of Iran’s nuclear facilities, this war will be a failure. I told the NYT the only realistic way to do that is by winning Tehran’s cooperation through diplomacy. We can’t do it ourselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
The UN's nuclear watchdog warned this week that a recent surge in nuclear facility activity suggests North Korea is in the process of a "very serious increase" in its weapons development capacity.
From Stars and Stripes' Julie Masson:
If US leaders cannot defend the country for $1 trillion rather than $1.5 trillion, we need a new set of leaders.
Great discussion of the future of nuclear proliferation and nuclear restraint last night, with a panel of illustrious colleagues. Watch it on YouTube.
iop.harvard.edu/events/nucle...
Good story on our efforts to remove Leslie Wexner’s name from the entrance building to the Harvard Kennedy School, as one part of grappling with Harvard’s deep connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
www.boston25news.com/news/local/m...
A man of deep technical insight, good judgment, and remarkable common sense. www.belfercenter.org/person/alber...
Great event last night to celebrate the amazing Al Carnesale -- SALT negotiator, expert on nuclear fuel cycles and proliferation, co-leader of the 1980s Avoiding Nuclear War Project, only person to be Dean of the Kennedy School, Harvard provost, and acting President of Harvard at the same time.
You can watch this live online, or watch the recording later!
This is available online, too!
The full proposal offers some powerful evidence and argument for removing the name (largely written by a group of talented and passionate students). The Harvard Crimson story links to the full thing.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Powerful op-ed HKS student Lauren Barnes, a sexual assault survivor, on why Harvard must remove Leslie Wexner's name from the main entrance building of the Harvard Kennedy School. Lauren and I were among the co-authors of the formal proposal to the university to remove the name.
Excited to be hosting former Ambassadors David Nusbaum and Laura Holgate for a discussion tomorrow of the state of global nuclear governance and what to do about it.
www.hks.harvard.edu/events/curre...
Looking forward to joining Graham Allison, Meghan O'Sullivan, Rose Gottemoeller, and Laura Holgate in the HKS Forum tomorrow for a discussion of nuclear dangers and efforts to mitigate them -- the inaugural convening in honor of Al Carnesale.
www.hks.harvard.edu/events/nucle...
If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.
Note: Ankit Panda sensibly raises a concern that the quoted Chinese statement may not be real. I hope he’s right.
Caveat lector. I've read a lot of Chinese MoD writing in translation and this does not seem authentic (and no evidence of such a statement on any official PRC websites). Among other things, China would not say "Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz" (because they care about GCC relationships).
Trump’s pullout was trust-destroying. Hard to see how Iran could believe any American promises at this point.
The result of Obama’s Iran deal—no HEU, strict enrichment caps, international monitoring far beyond usual safeguards, foundation for further negotiations—were indisputably better than the results of Trump’s war.
Hoo boy. Trump may be forced to make a choice between attacking Chinese ships or having his blockade begin to unravel almost from the beginning.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
