Wired magazine reports on how soon it will be before quantum computers are able to crack all the encryption we are using tody. It says: One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your…

The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training reports how the US removed highly enriched uranium from Kazakstan. Quoting the oral history of Janet Bogue, it says: According to Bogue, the U.S. government at first wanted nothing to do with it. Washington officials didn’t believe it could be highly enriched uranium, so Bogue’s team arranged to…

The Financial Times reports: rench Pres­id­ent Emmanuel Mac­ron has invited fel­low European lead­ers to dis­cuss whether, and how, his coun­try’s nuc­lear arsenal could be used as a deterrent against future Rus­sian aggres­sion. But his allies may not like the lim­it­a­tions he may choose to keep on the force de frappe. The idea of extend­ing the…

From the Economist: THE SIGNALS were coming fast and furious by the first week of March. Ukrainian forces in the Kursk bridgehead, an area of Russia that Ukraine seized last August, were becoming trapped. Aided by North Korean forces, Russia had tightened a noose around the Ukrainians’ flanks and was within firing range of their last remaining…

Trump’s refusal to support our traditional military allies, as well as Ukraine, has created unease about their reliance on the US nuclear umbrella, explained in this op-ed in the New York Times. More countries are considering developing their own nuclear weapons, unsetting decades of efforts to prevent their proliferation. America’s European and Asian allies haven’t…

I believe that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is in danger, and not just from the random missiles and drones that fall on Kyiv each night. If Putin succeeds in taking over Ukraine years after he first attempted to, he will wnt to get rid of Zelenskyy, who is a potential rallying point for Ukrainians resisting Russian…