John Bolton: “I might as well say it now: I voted for Dick Cheney [in 2020]. And I’ll vote for Dick Cheney again this November.”

“How many times are you going to watch that Tyler Adams screamer?” #USMNT

TYLER ADAMS JUST BEFORE THE HALF.

MY F***ING USMNT CAPTAIN IS BACK.

PUT SOME RESPECT ON HIS NAME 🇺🇸🔥

Germany, Nuclear Weapons & Zeitenwende

🚀Could/should 🇩🇪 get the bomb?
🚀Is 🇩🇪 becoming a military power?
🚀What future threats is 🇩🇪 facing?
🚀What about disarmament/arms control?
🚀What's the role of The Greens?

All answers in my new o/a book👇🏼.A🧵

tinyurl.com/9udshunm

A new issue is out! tandfonline.com/toc/fsst20/cur…

A thread below with each of the articles.

Are politicians swayed by personal interests when voting on war? Article in Tufts University magazine on joint work with Nate G. Hilger and Nicholas Miller published in JPE: now.tufts.edu/2024/02/27/how…

Messi chipping the ball over a corpse is not something I expected to see in my life

Check out this terrific roundtable on nuclear lessons from Ukraine w dream team Mark Bell et al.! Proud to see new round of insightful contributions from the Alva Myrdal Centre WG I had the pleasure of directing (now led by eminent prof T Jonter). ⬇️
networks.h-net.org/group/discussi…

Noteworthy, and follows similar comments by Eslami in January. Not an affirmation that Iran has built (or is building) a bomb, but certainly further evidence Tehran wants a nuclear weapons option.

HUGE congratulations to CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues CSIS International Security Program CSIS intern Ben Ryan on his recent piece in Lawfare on why and how Russia uses arms control treaties as bargaining chips 👇

lawfaremedia.org/article/why-ru…

[presenting the trophy to the team owner]
congratulations, sir, your father founded a team 60 years ago and then he died. what a ride for you

Yoon: “Some say that unlike North Korea, ROK’s lack of granite layers would complicate underground nuclear testing. However, I tell you, if we set our minds to it, the process wouldn’t take as long as some ppl say”

Cc ⁦Toby Dalton⁩ ⁦Adam Mount⁩ nknews.org/2024/02/yoon-s…

New in International Organization w Tyler Jost Eric Min & Schub:

We combine computational methods with uniquely rich Cold War archival evidence to study how advisers matter in foreign policy.

Where advisers stand doesn't just depend on where they sit.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Yoon embraces nuclear hedging: 'Yoon insisted that South Korea clearly has the technology to quickly acquire nuclear weapons capabilities if it ever decides to do so. But taking that step isn’t a realistic option as it would ruin a trade-dependent economy'
apnews.com/article/south-…

The other day, my 4 year old said she didn’t want to go to kindergarten.

My wife asked her why and she said, “it’s just one step closer to death.”
😂😂😂

NEW: Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to reinstitute a standardized testing requirement for admissions:

“Standardized testing requirement will improve—not detract from—our ability to bring the most promising and diverse students to our campus.”

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis, or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said.Parisa Hafezi

'Meanwhile...the Iranian nuclear program has suddenly been put on steroids. International inspectors announced in late December that Iran initiated a threefold increase in its enrichment of near-bomb-grade uranium.' nytimes.com/2024/01/07/us/…

Wow.

'The US assessments cited several examples of the impact of graft, including ... vast fields of missile silos in western China with lids that don’t function in a way that would allow the missiles to launch effectively, one of the people said.'
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (The Associated Press) — White House: US has evidence Russia has used NKorean ballistic missiles against Ukraine and is seeking Iranian missiles.