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Gallery: Sudan’s Civil War A close look at the world’s largest humanitarian crisis

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How the Ukraine-Russia War Is Transforming the Tank They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.

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How Much Damage Did U.S. Strikes Do to Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site? It may be quite some time before outside experts can gauge exactly how seriously Fordo was damaged. But a look at the bomb used, the facility’s structure and the site’s geology offers some clues.

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Opinion | Trump Is Blurring the Line Between the Military and Law Enforcement

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...

Opinion | The New Nuclear Generation The adults who were children at the dawn of the atomic era are nearing the end of their lives.

“Today, nuclear war is mostly thought to be the stuff of history books: gruesome, uncomfortable and firmly in the past,” Spencer Cohen writes. But as the risk rises, a generation of young people is waking up to the threat.

Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers

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80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’ Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

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Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone.

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80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945 Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025 - Early in the morning of 16 July 1945, 80 years ago, the U.S. Manhattan Project staged the first test of a nuclear weapon in the New Mexican desert. It was the first t...

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How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made

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Opinion | Trump Might Get Us Into Another War. Where’s Congress?

It is Congress’ constitutional right to declare war — not the president’s — despite the wide latitude given to the White House during GWOT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret

“If I could wave a wand” to make the H-bomb vanish, he once said, “I would.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

NTI Seminar: A Conversation with New York Times Opinion A virtual conversation with Kathleen Kingsbury and W.J. Hennigan from New York Times Opinion to discuss their “At the Brink” series about today’s nuclear threats.

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Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats.

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Opinion | Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III

reflective essay from seven eastern european foreign ministers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

"She recalled decoding a congratulatory note transmitted to a German sailor following the birth of his son. His submarine was sunk a few days later." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0

Ted Kaczynski’s Brother Wrote Him For Decades to Explain Why He Turned Him In Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.

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Why Saudi Arabia Supports Trump’s Nuclear Talks With Its Rival, Iran The agreements are shaping up to be very similar. But Gulf support for a nuclear deal shows how much the region has changed.

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Building Explodes at Northrop Grumman’s Utah Plant for New Nuclear Missile The explosion Wednesday is the latest in a history of workplace accidents, including injuries and deaths, at Northrop Grumman facilities in Utah. The plant’s programs include the new Sentinel ICBM.

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Secret Tunnels, Bunkers and Arsenals: The ‘Panic Industry’ Is Booming Fortifying the American home has become big business, selling an endless supply of paranoia.

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Trump’s military border surge takes shape along U.S.-Mexico frontier Using military hardware typically reserved for missions overseas, the Trump administration looks to send a message that the status quo has changed.

NEW FROM THE BORDER:

Trump’s military border surge takes shape along U.S.-Mexico frontier

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The First Victim of Trump’s Trade War: Michigan’s Economy With one in 10 jobs dependent on the auto industry, the state is already feeling the effects of tariffs. Automakers and factory workers are tightening their belts, even as many locals hope the…

Michigan is ground zero for Trump’s trade war, and tariffs are already starting to bite. “I don’t have 20% margin to give.”

I missed this story about the ISIS-affiliated insurgency in Mozambique in January. What strikes me about it are the photos—taken by the NYT’s Joao Silva, who lost both his legs in Afg in 2010.

Joao is back photographing the tragedy of war—including other amputees. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/w...

Opinion | The Message Pete Hegseth Sends the Troops Last week’s report that the defense secretary shared sensitive information on an unclassified messaging app is now straining the limits of his credibility.

SECDEF's standards www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.

This is truly the best publicity Signal could ever ask for, TBH.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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Opinion | A Reminder of What Pre-Vaccine America Was Like The worst manifestations of preventable diseases have faded from public memory.

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Opinion | Trump Is Reshaping the Nuclear Landscape In recent days, the perceived value among allies of acquiring nuclear weapons is up, and confidence in the U.S. nuclear umbrella is down.

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Under Pentagon influence, the script of Godzilla (2014) underwent a striking transformation—shifting from a critical take on the U.S. military’s use of nuclear weapons in World War II to a more favorable portrayal.

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