Month: March 2025

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…

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Palentir CEO Alex Karp and coauthor Nicholas Zameska have written a book called “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.” George Will says about it: From an unlikely place — the upper reaches of the technology industry — comes an unexpected summons to an…