Frank O'Donnell

Also hope there are quiet 🇮🇳 consultations with 🇯🇵 & 🇰🇷 on how they have managed similar 🇺🇸 pressures. Trump wants “announceables,” and there is no attention paid to subsequent follow-through by the partner state.

Great overview of how 🇮🇳 is internally grappling with 🇺🇸 issues. 🇮🇳 more than capable of creating diplomatic off-ramps to disputes and then successfully overselling their impact on actually resolving the core dispute, as its 🇨🇳 diplomacy over Ladakh shows. Hope similar approach to 🇺🇸 is underway in PMO.

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Using the lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to promote disarmament discourses 80 years after Hiroshima, ELN Policy and Research Director Oliver Meier warns that while leaders solemnly mark the bombing's anniversary, their growing complacency toward nuclear weapons and prolifera...

80 years after Hiroshima, ELN Policy and Research Director @olivermeier.bsky.social warns that while leaders solemnly mark the bombing’s anniversary, their growing complacency toward nuclear weapons and proliferation raises the risk of use.
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These nuclear reactors fit on a flatbed truck. How safe are they? Firms are close to bringing the first “micro reactors” to market, with hundreds being shipped within the decade and dotting the landscape. Is America ready?

So is the Container Security Initiative just not a thing anymore? Or should we just take relief in the fact that a truck or contents of a shipping container has never, ever, ever, been stolen or gone missing?*

*Citation needed

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Under Stalin the USSR worked on a submarine which had 3 torpedo rooms, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and midget submarines for amphibious assault.

Obvious the idea didn’t float

Women shouldn’t hold office, says GOP woman now running for office “I don’t know if I would vote for any female,” said state senate hopeful Mylie Biggs, the daughter of GOP Rep. Andy Biggs.

Women shouldn’t hold office, says GOP woman now running for office

Discover a brand new 2025 OA book from @hopkinspress.bsky.social

In Lessons from the New Cold War, editor Hal Brands assembles an all-star cast of the most influential thinkers writing on the competition between the United States and China.

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#ReadUP #OpenAccess #oa

China’s Rocket Debris Prompts Philippine Condemnation The Philippine government has issued a formal condemnation of China following the suspected descent of China's rocket debris from a Long March 12 launch into waters near Philippine maritime territory....

The Philippine government has issued a formal condemnation of China following the suspected descent of China’s rocket debris from a Long March 12 launch into waters near Philippine maritime territory.

Nuclear Experts Say Mixing AI and Nuclear Weapons Is Inevitable Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.

Appropriate that on August 6, @scientistsorg.bsky.social quoted looking at the dangers of nuclear weapons and AI. Thanks @wired.com for including me.

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India's Modi plans first China visit in 7 years, as tensions with US rise Indian security official in Russia to discuss oil, weapons amid Trump tariffs

India's Modi plans first China visit in 7 years, as tensions with US rise
https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/international-relations/india-s-modi-plans-first-china-visit-in-7-years-as-tensions-with-us-rise

“Now, could you remind us - what color were the training wheels on those bikes?”

India’s Pragmatic Pivot Toward China By improving business ties with Beijing, New Delhi is advancing its economic interests amid uncertainty from Washington.

As New Delhi grapples with America First, it sees a new role for China in providing the technology and capital that India needs.

Russia says it no longer will abide by its self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles Russia has declared it's no longer considers itself bound by a self-imposed moratorium on deploying nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles, a warning that potentially sets the stage for a new arm...

Russia says it no longer will abide by its self-imposed moratorium on intermediate-range missiles

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The debris was scattered over 600 km across the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Alberta, and Saskatchewan in the dead of winter, 1978, and led to the joint US-Canadian cleanup effort known as Operation Morning Light:

The Future of Defense Is Coincidentally Made By My Company

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Calvin & Hobbes today -

Rajasthan: DRDO guest house manager in Pokhran detained on suspicions of espionage The accused had allegedly leaked details about the movements of visiting defence personnel as well as sensitive information related to the Pokhran range.

"The accused, identified as Mahendra Prasad, was posted at the Pokhran Field Firing Range guest house, a facility considered highly sensitive due to its frequent use by India’s top defense experts, scientists, and senior military officers."

R.I. ACLU questions ‘inexplicable’ gap in police officer’s body-camera video of disabled man’s shooting - The Boston Globe “Any time a police officer uses potentially deadly force, it’s important that there be an accounting of it,” said Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU of Rhode Island.

R.I. ACLU questions ‘inexplicable’ gap in police officer’s body-camera video of disabled man’s shooting www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

IAF’s unending fighter conundrum | Explained MiG-21 fighter jets to be retired from Indian Air Force, highlighting the need for new aircraft.

Comprehensive piece by Dinakar Peri on the status of IAF modernization -

Column | A top U.S. ally reckons with an age of ‘turbulence’ South Korea’s new foreign minister Cho Hyun traveled to the United States at a delicate moment in the two countries’ relationship.

South Korea’s new foreign minister Cho Hyun reckons with an age of ‘turbulence’ – The Washington Post: ‘In Northeast Asia, we have another problem of China becoming somewhat problematic with its neighbors.’

The China-India Infrastructure Race Along the Himalayas Over the past decade, China has ramped up military and dual-use infrastructure along its border with India. Experts say it’s part of a risky effort to dominate the region.

In a video essay for @wsj.com alongside @sushantsingh.bsky.social and Shanshan Mei, APLN Senior Research Adviser @frank11285.bsky.social offers analysis on the strategic dynamics along the China-India border. www.wsj.com/video/the-ch...

Thank God I Didn’t Vote for Hope and Joy Several months ago, in the lead-up to the most recent Most Important Election of Our Lifetime, I wondered out loud whether we should choose the unc...

"Last fall, I cast my vote for despair, and I got exactly what I was told I would receive: a chaotic hellscape completely empty of warmth, empathy, and sunshine."

I graduated in 2007 and the market was so bad that I moved to post-Katrina New Orleans. and then Lehman collapsed! and I am so, so lucky!!!

80 years on: Reflecting on South Korea’s anti-nuclear history - The Korea Times Next month, South Korea and Japan will mark two 80-year anniversaries. On Aug. 6 and 9, Japan will remember the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One week later, on Aug. 15, So...

APLN Policy Fellow Joel Petersson Ivre @joelivre.bsky.social writes for The Korea Times and examines the paradox in South Korea’s public opinion, where support for #nuclearweapons is high while opposition to #nuclearpower remains strong.

www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/colu... #NukeSky

Could have stopped that sentence after “Adobe”

“The same conditions that drove corporate intervention in Ukraine do not exist in Taiwan. When Russia invaded, the U.S. firms had little to lose in Russia; they did not depend on the country for revenue, supply chains, or R&D. Moreover, overwhelming Western support for Ukraine made it reputationally beneficial, as well as politically safe, for companies to assist Kyiv. In Taiwan, none of those dynamics are guaranteed.”

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Police nationwide are embracing a new first responder: Drones Police tout the “Drone as First Responder” technology as life-saving for officers and community members, while critics raise surveillance and privacy concerns.

“When you have a camera in the sky that can see things that police officers can’t normally see, that offers a huge potential for privacy invasion,” said Beryl Lipton, a senior researcher with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group.”