Good afternoon. I have been watching pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case at Guantanamo Bay in a video feed to a Pentagon viewing room. The judge has been hearing about would-be trial witnesses, specifically people the defense teams want and prosecutors do not.
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U.S. forces rescued an Air Force officer whose fighter jet had been shot down in Iran, President Trump said on Sunday. The rescue followed a race between American and Iranian forces that stretched over two days, current and former U.S. officials said. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
No answers on the two crises that now define the war and hold the potential to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East and the world economy for years to come. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...
His proposal, if acted upon, would almost certainly amount to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
ICYMI: my conversation with @wjhenn.bsky.social at @newamerica.org on why nuclear danger is rising even as attention fades—and how repeated warnings can turn an existential threat into background noise—is streaming here 👇
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John Burns was a great war correspondent. He was also a champion of the NYT Baghdad Bureau’s feral cat population, as he described in this lovely 2007 piece. I took two of the kittens born there in 2007 home to my parents in 2009—one is still alive today, age 19.
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Excellent takeout on the splashy sitch by @samlagrone.bsky.social and colleagues. As this explains, mines qua mines would be a desperation move for the Iranians because it would obstruct the strait for *everyone* including them. But, but, a thousand times but: they've done it before
Trump’s war against Iran has triggered the most consequential nuclear moment in the Middle East in a generation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o...
CENTCOM identifies the soldiers KIA in the Iranian attack on Kuwait.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.
This image is a promotional poster for an event by New America, featuring W.J. Hennigan and Amy J. Nelson. It includes their photos and mentions a discussion titled "When Nuclear Danger Becomes Background Noise." The event is scheduled for March 4th, at 12 pm ET, online.
Join @wjhenn.bsky.social of @nytopinion.nytimes.com and New America's @amyjnelsonphd.bsky.social for a virtual conversation about nuclear risk and threat complacency.
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“Why in the world would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody, what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective?" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
The Iranian regime massacred thousands of its own citizens when protests swept the country last month. In this Opinion Video, journalists show the evidence of that brutality, smuggled out by medical workers to the rest of the world.
Join us March 4 with @wjhenn.bsky.social for a conversation on how the public understands, interprets, and responds to nuclear risk.
Trump team unveiled a new strategy for nuclear diplomacy today in Geneva www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
If Congress doesn’t act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.
The last major US-Russia nuclear arms treaty is set to expire in less thsn a week www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Here's a thread recapping a few articles, exclusives and explainers that I hope you did not miss in the crush of news in 2025. I'm starting off with an off-beat long read we published on a very busy weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The United States was close to a deal to co-produce Tomahawks at a factory in Japan, potentially doubling production of the missiles. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
.@nytopinion.nytimes.com ed-board examines the state of the U.S. defense industrial base and American shipbuilding www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“The speed of warfare will soon outpace human ability to control it." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
series launch from @nytopinion.nytimes.com ed board on rethinking national defense www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.
A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody.
The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
Mr. Trump has chosen instead to “federalize” the units against the wishes of state and local leaders for “emergencies” that few outside his administration can see, particularly as national ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
