Hans Kristensen
@nukestrat
Director, Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists. Tracking nuclear arsenals, writing Nuclear Notebook, SIPRI Yearbook. Opinions my own.
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https://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/ 26-02-2009 02:31:47
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Here is the favorite Republican presidential candidate praising (again) some of world’s most brutal authoritarians.
#Election2024
Trump's Iowa landslide? He received all of 56,000 votes or 7% of registered Republicans in Iowa and just 3% of overall registered voters in the state. More people voted for Muriel Bowser in Washington DC’s last mayoral primary, notes Susan Glasser. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
Well, the BBC documentary Nuclear Armageddon: How Close Are We has aired in the UK. amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Unfortunately the BBC iPlayer doesn’t work in the US.
The few clips I’ve found show they certainly use our information about Lakenheath. fas.org/publication/in…
Aspiring strongman Trump won the recent presidential caucus election in Iowa, where 69% of Republican voters don’t believe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election and 72% think Trump is fit to be president even if convicted of a crime. 🤪 cnn.com/election/2024/…
#Election2024
I spoke with David Priess about recent erroneous claims that SECDEF is in the nuclear chain of command, but also why he should be. 👇
UN: During the past two years, Russia has killed 10,200 civilians in Ukraine. The rate increased sharply in December as Russia has bombed residential areas.
#StandWithUkraine apnews.com/article/b4702b…
But NATO’s resolve to bear costs in Ukraine is low* because Ukraine’s not in NATO, NATO’s not at war in Ukraine, and NATO members don’t currently see it as advantageous to change either of those two conditions. Those limitations wouldn’t hold if Russia attacked NATO itself. 1/?