Ankit Panda
@nktpnd.bsky.social
Stanton Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Author of ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (Polity) & ‘KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB’ (Hurst/Oxford)
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Credit where credit's due. Here's a link to Cheney's memo on reducing the US nuclear aesenal. nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/220...
November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My link is broken, so here’s a better one. bsky.app/profile/colo...
Trump is a Queens guy, sure, but it's also true that the future of America rests in Queens. It's Queens all the way down.
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trump is a Queens guy, sure, but it's also true that the future of America rests in Queens. It's Queens all the way down.
To be clear, I don't take Cotton (nor Ratcliffe) at their word. The China allegation is notably new compared to the previous State compliance report language. Just saying that if they're laying a case to test, then this is different from saying they're doing full-yield explosive testing.
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
To be clear, I don't take Cotton (nor Ratcliffe) at their word. The China allegation is notably new compared to the previous State compliance report language. Just saying that if they're laying a case to test, then this is different from saying they're doing full-yield explosive testing.
Now this from Sen. Cotton. (Consistent with what I've argued above on the impetus for Trump taking and interest in this.)
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Now this from Sen. Cotton. (Consistent with what I've argued above on the impetus for Trump taking and interest in this.)
(Will podcast on this soon.)
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
(Will podcast on this soon.)
I've long had misgivings about the "zero yield" compliance standard. I hadn't anticipated we'd get a POTUS convinced others were doing explosive testing as a result, but it's a particularly perverse and unnecessary outcome.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I've long had misgivings about the "zero yield" compliance standard. I hadn't anticipated we'd get a POTUS convinced others were doing explosive testing as a result, but it's a particularly perverse and unnecessary outcome.
I'm also skeptical that this "solution" will be satisfactory for Trump; hell, I don't think you could even successfully brief him on why this is a supposed "solution" to the problem he's conjured here. bsky.app/profile/nktp...
Assuming Trump wants to literally test "like other countries do," this would involve getting the US to stop doing sub-critical testing and moving to small yield-generating tests (not necessarily explosive testing).
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I'm also skeptical that this "solution" will be satisfactory for Trump; hell, I don't think you could even successfully brief him on why this is a supposed "solution" to the problem he's conjured here. bsky.app/profile/nktp...