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Could a nuclear revival fuel America’s future in this competitive environment? Impending doom. Nuclear power is not worth the impact or the risk.
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Russia’s former president and current deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev (L)
On My Mind Today:
Remember when Trump deceitfully said he could end the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours as a part of his latest election campaign? He not only couldn’t, he has now created a monolithic crevasse between the U.S./Russia/ and Ukraine that is possibly threatening a nuclear war — perhaps as soon as a year from now — or even sooner if Putin or Trump should break the START Treaty agreement —the useless pact that “sort of prevents” Russia or the United States from starting a nuclear war, although they both countries have access to their own inventory of 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers — as well as the possibility of nuclear power plants used as weapons—or way more than enough to begin and end human and other life on planet Earth.
I would not trust either so-called “president” to honor the pact, although it expires in a year anyway. Neither of them are “honorable”, not unlike most al the other “leaders” or “rulers” around the world who have nuclear weapons of mass destruction at their disposal.
Trump seems to have no idea what he is doing regarding either Russia or Ukraine nor even how the USA is involved, and he has severely weakened our country’s standing around the world by switching his loyalty back and forth between Putin and Zelenskyy.
And so it is that we all need to pay attention to our ultimate destiny until we are somehow someday assured that nuclear bombs and nuclear energy will not exterminate almost virtually all life on our dear Mother Earth. ~llaw
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Putin Ally Issues Warning to Trump Admin on ‘High’ Risk of Direct Conflict
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned the Trump administration that “the risk of direct conflict remains high” between the United States and Russia.
“Russia’s ready to comply with the START Treaty, which I signed in 2010. Now the Trump admin must decide. But adhering to the letter of the treaty isn’t enough. The US must give up on weakening Russia with sanctions and tariffs. Otherwise, the risk of direct conflict remains high,” Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council.
Why It Matters
The Russia-Ukraine war, which has been ongoing since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion in February 2022, has fueled concerns about the potential of nuclear war. Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, and Russian media personalities have frequently made threats about the potential use of nuclear weapons amid the conflict. The U.S. has been supportive of Ukraine and has issued sanctions against the Russian economy in an effort to apply pressure to end the conflict.
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The START treaty, an agreement between the U.S. and Russia establishing limits on nuclear weapons, dates back to 1991. The updated New START treaty went into effect in 2011 and has been extended through February 4, 2026, according to the U.S. State Department.
The treaty places verifiable limits on all Russian deployed intercontinental-range nuclear weapons. It limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.
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“To avoid provoking a further strategic arms race and to ensure an acceptable level of predictability and restraint, we believe it is justified to try to maintain the status quo established by the New START Treaty during the current, rather turbulent period,” Putin said.
He added that this would “only be viable if the United States acts in a similar manner and does not take steps that undermine or disrupt the existing balance of deterrence potentials,” NBC News reported.
The New START treaty was signed by former U.S. President Barack Obama and Medvedev. At the time, Obama said the agreement signaled the U.S. and Russia’s willingness to “pursue responsible global leadership.”
Russia suspended the New START Treaty in February 2023 after the U.S. accused Moscow of violating it due to its failure to uphold mutual monitoring elements related to inspections.
Tensions remained high between Russia and the U.S., as well as its European allies. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he believes NATO member states should shoot down Russian aircraft that violate their airspace after both Poland and Estonia reported Russian incursions earlier in September.
What People Are Saying
NATO, in a statement Tuesday: “Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions. We will continue to respond in the manner, timing, and domain of our choosing. Our commitment to Article 5 is ironclad.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, per NBC News: “Based on our analysis of the situation, we will subsequently make a decision on maintaining these voluntary self-restraints.”
What Happens Next
Efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war have stalled. Nuclear tensions remain heightened as the conflict continues.
Update 9/23/25, 5:40 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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… is much bigger scale than all the other things that we’ve been setting up to build. So right now, one of the exciting things that is emerging is the.
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The briefcase cheget, which controls Russian nuclear weapons
On My Mind Today:
The risk of a nuclear war created by mistake and begun accidentally by human and/or technical computerized erroneous nuclear related procedural alerts by defense systems and power plants has long been a potential reality — and in fact has been narrowly averted at least once — and as we proceed into AI technologies and their automated surveillance and operations systems chances are that nuclear accidents — of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power — become mathematically more of a progressive possibility.
So it is that our own and other life’s apocalyptic demise on planet Earth could begin and end by nothing more than a huge fatal mistake. “The Telegraph” article below — sans images which were automatically removed by their posting system — deals with a serious possibility of a nation’s “leader” pulling a trigger or pushing a nuclear button by mistake . . . ~llaw
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The briefcase cheget, which controls Russian nuclear weapons
On Friday, three Russian MiG-31 Foxhounds, the Kremlin’s primary combat platform for hypersonic Kinzhal missiles (capable of carrying nuclear warheads), violated Estonia’s airspace. It was Russia’s latest incursion into a Nato member, following a series of breaches by drones over Poland and Romania earlier in the month.
This is obviously a dangerous escalation by the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin is likely seeking to build up a clearer picture of how Nato responds to provocations as well as to desensitise Europeans to breaches of their sovereignty. But there is another important element to the story, too. On Tuesday last week, to mark the culmination of a strategic command staff wargame codenamed “Zapad 2025”, Russia simulated the launch of a tactical nuclear strike. It was overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing a military uniform.
Neither Russia nor Nato wants a direct “kinetic” conflict. But as the war in Ukraine, a proxy confrontation between Moscow and Washington, rages on, the risk of unintentional escalation due to a misunderstanding is rising rapidly.
For five days, Russian forces conducted Zapad jointly with their Belarussian counterparts across 41 training bases in Western Russia and Belarus. The aim was to learn lessons from the current conflict in Ukraine, focused on hybrid strikes, mobile artillery tactics, and counter-drone warfare. Russia held previous Zapad drills in the autumn of 2021, using them as cover to amass approximately 190,000 troops along its Western border prior to the invasion of Ukraine, with the goal of achieving tactical surprise against Kyiv and Nato. Zapad-2021 also involved forces from Belarus, which is now in possession of Russian tactical nuclear weapons.
The Russians regularly practice the authorisation of nuclear weapon strikes as part of military drills, with Putin “pressing the button”, because they believe their leader must be psychologically prepared for this action. This is the result of an important lesson learned during the Soviet era. In 1972, then general secretary Leonid Brezhnev is said to have “trembled” when he was asked to push a button during a command post exercise simulating a war with the US. He kept asking his Defence Minister Andrei Grechko whether it was “definitely an exercise”.
While Western analysts dismissed Putin’s action as an exaggeration, claiming that there has been no real change to Russia’s baseline nuclear posture, US intelligence assessments based on so-called I&Ws (indications and warnings) may only be partially useful in understanding the current threat. The US threat detection framework is structured to detect an imminent threat, rather than provide strategic warning of a pacing threat that develops over time.
Crucially, there is now zero trust between Nato and Russia. Moscow’s long-standing fear that the US is seeking regime change in Russia has been exacerbated by frequent commentary from Western officials stating openly or implying their intention to defeat the Russian military, tank its economy, and remove Putin from power. Ukrainian strikes on the Russian nuclear triad, specifically the strategic bombers that form the centre-piece of Russia’s deterrence and defence strategy, are likely to have further exacerbated those fears.
In November, 1983, Nato was getting ready to practice a nuclear launch in a military exercise, Able Archer 83. Tensions were already high after the Soviets had shot down a South Korean passenger airliner that had strayed off course en route from Anchorage to Seoul. But the Kremlin went into convulsions over Able Archer, assuming that it was the real thing rather than a practice drill.
Russia’s intelligence agencies had been on high alert for two years, having been tasked in 1981 by KGB chairman Yuri Andropov and Brezhnev to look for indications of US intentions to launch a nuclear strike on the USSR. The KGB had issued a computer-generated intelligence estimate, indicating that the “correlation of world forces” dramatically favoured the United States. The result was a massive clandestine intelligence collection programme, codenamed RYAN (Raketno-Yadernoe Napadeniye; “nuclear missile attack” in Russian) to find signposts of US preparations for war with the USSR. It encouraged Soviet leaders to see in the US posture exactly what they had been looking for. A full-scale simulated release of nuclear weapons by Nato forces could only mean one thing to the paranoid Soviets: the beginning of nuclear war.
A mass Soviet nuclear attack awaited only an order from Andropov. There was no communication between Moscow and Washington throughout the crisis to clear up the situation. Fortunately, no order was given, and at the conclusion of the Nato exercise on November 11, 1983, the tension dissipated.
But it could have ended very differently. And the world faces a similar situation today, given the collapse of trust between Russia and the West, as well as the breakdown of key lines of communications.
Neither Nato nor Russia wants to end up in a kinetic dog-fight, let alone a nuclear war. But neither wants to allow the other side to be perceived as winning in Ukraine. Both, expecting an attack from the other, are using their massive intelligence collection systems to look for any signposts of an impending attack to enable quick decision-making.
Interpreting leadership intentions is inherently hard. Not every order can be intercepted and not every intelligence indicator is observable. Confusion and errors, as a result of the proverbial “fog of war”, are standard attributes of armed conflict. The likelihood that, in this pressure cooker environment, a miscalculation will be made with tragic results is very real.
As social media is exploding with President Trump’s ultimatums and the threats issued by Putin’s proxies, if cooler heads do not prevail in Moscow, Washington, and Europe, nuclear war could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Rebekah Koffler is a strategic military intelligence analyst, formerly with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. She is the author of ‘Putin’s Playbook’, Regnery 2021. Her next book ‘Trump’s Playbook’ will be published later this year. Rebekah’s podcast Trump’s Playbook is running on her channel Censored But Not Silenced and is available on most social media platforms @Rebekah0132
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Tuesday, (09/23/2025)
… nuclear arms race and increased risk of a nuclear conflict. … Russia escalating repression to silence opposition to war in Ukraine, UN human rights …
The flowering of a spreading evil comes from the roots of a poisonous seed . . . ~llaw
On My Mind Today:
I have long wondered if any of us would exist today had we been armed the way we are these days in a war against the kind of future Hitler had in mind for humanity back in the 1940’s WWII.
I also wonder if we are fast-tracking today on the verge of repeating that history and if the final result will be a victory for the desired existential human cause. I do hope I am dead wrong, but I suspect this time around that the goals of power-crazed so-called “leaders” will be successful — not only because of the two original nuclear bombs that played a cruel but purposeful and final role then — but also the fact that there are nine power-crazed international or “leaders” or “rulers” whose nations have more than enough nuclear weapons of mass destruction to destroy all life on Mother Earth thousands of times over.
So it is that I — and millions of others who are alive, aware, alert, and awake — worry about the impending possibility of destroying ourselves along with the rest of life on planet Earth.
As food-for-thought I have borrowed a very important Facebook Post, rather than a current nuclear news story, from my dear Canadian friend and co-author of an 1880’s Old West Wyoming cowboy tale based on the insane reality of what overzealous self-important and self-aggrandized men can do without even a life-ending flinch to anyone who may feel — in their own wrong-headed, overzealous, demented minds — that their personal belongings, territory and its boundaries have been violated.
Hitler apparently felt that way, too, and so do some, if not all, of the “leaders” and their sycophants of today’s nine nations who can easily end life on planet Earth with little more than pressing a single button . . . ~llaw
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So here, for what it’s worth now and on into the future, with my deeply sincere thanks to my dear friend and previous co-author is her thoughtful food-for-thought recent Facebook Post that we should carefully consider:
“Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) is on my mind.
He is remembered for “First They Came,” a poem… to show us how heavy (his remorse) weighed on his conscience…or to awaken humanity’s empathy.
Legend says that at first, he supported the Nazis, probably he also was antisemitic…until those muthafuckas came and took control of the churches ….and only then he dared to speak out but it was far too late.…”
The rest we know in his poem…
Would speaking earlier have spared him and countless others? Perhaps. A powerful voice with a congregation could have joined many smaller voices to oppose tyranny before it grew too strong.
Let this inspire me to not make any such similar mistakes…and this post is a start …. (for me to go boldly, bravely, badass-ly ever after)….of me adding my voice to the mix. And hoping against hope that we let go of our hate for each other NOW for civil war weakens our own system, distract us…..and there is definitely a lot of hate in my fb stream, enough to keep us all in Fear: fight, flight and freeze instincts…
Yikes. ~ Amy Indira Dio Ramdass
or with Amy’s edits recognizing today’s nihilistic world . . .
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TODAY’S ALL NUCLEAR WORLD’s NEWS, Monday, (09/22/2025)
Trump says US wants Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base back from Taliban . . .
It’s not so much what Trump says but more the selfishly demanding way he says it . . . He seems to be inviting conflict everywhere he touches base around the world. This nuclear world is a world that must globally, collectively, cooperate in unity instead of threatening other nations or belittling them as inferior.
It is well known, perhaps because he may suffer from a form of memory loss, that Trump ridicules others (e.g. Joe Biden and Barack Obama)) for things he has done himself, as in this case.
According to the “Al Jazeera” article below, Trump, who has frequently harshly criticized his predecessor, blames former President Biden for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Trump himself had initiated during his first term — said the US gave the Taliban “Bagram for nothing”.
America cannot become a country of greedy isolationism nor can it rule over a nuclear armed world. I fear that Trump’s harsh actions are provoking — rather than stemming — such a thing as nuclear war, which would no doubt initiate WWIII and end the problem of racial, ethnic, political, philosophical, and other man-made divisions forever . . . llaw
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Afghan Taliban rejects Trump threats over taking back Bagram airbase
Donald Trump has pushed to regain Bagram, citing proximity to China’s nuclear facilities.
An Afghan soldier stands guard at the gate of the United States’ Bagram airbase in Parwan province on the day the last US troops vacated it, July 2, 2021 [Mohammad Ismail/Reuters]
The Taliban has rejected United States President Donald Trump’s demand that it hand over the Bagram airbase that Washington ran during its 20-year war in Afghanistan, dismissing Trump’s threat that “bad things” will happen if this does not come to pass.
The Taliban said on Sunday that “Afghanistan’s independence and territorial integrity are of the utmost importance” and called on the US to uphold prior agreements that it would not resort to force.
“Accordingly, it is once again underscored that, rather than repeating past failed approaches, a policy of realism and rationality should be adopted,” Afghanistan’s rulers said.
Bagram, which was the US’s largest military site in Afghanistan, is a large airbase located 50km (31 miles) north of Kabul that served as one of the US’s key military hubs during its two-decade war against the Taliban. The war, which followed the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington by al-Qaeda, ended in 2021 with Washington’s abrupt and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Thousands of people were imprisoned at the site for years without charge or trial by US forces during its so-called “war on terror”, and many of them were abused or tortured.
The Taliban retook the facility in 2021 following the US withdrawal and the collapse of the Afghan government.
Over the last week, Trump has expressed a keen interest in reacquiring the airbase.
“We’re talking now to Afghanistan and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away. And if they don’t do it, if they don’t do it, you’re going to find out what I’m gonna do,” Trump said to reporters at the White House on Saturday.
Trump first announced that he was working to take the base back during a state visit to the United Kingdom in a press conference alongside the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump delivered a message that caught the attention of policymakers in Beijing, saying, “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back. But one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”
Trump says US wants Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base back from the Taliban
The nuclear weapons Trump referred to are likely at China’s testing range at Lop Nur in the western Xinjiang province.
“The airfield has an 11,800-foot [3,597m] runway capable of serving bomber and large cargo aircraft,” the US Air Force says of Bagram on its website.
Trump, who has harshly criticised his predecessor, former US President Joe Biden, for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan — which Trump himself had initiated during his first term — said the US gave the Taliban “Bagram for nothing”.
Afghan officials have expressed staunch opposition to a renewed US presence in the country. Zakir Jalaly, a Foreign Ministry official, said “Afghans have never accepted foreign military presence in their land throughout history”, but added that the two countries need to engage in “economic and political relations based on bilateral respect and common interests”.
Fasihuddin Fitrat, a senior Ministry of Defence official, said a “deal over even an inch of Afghanistan’s soil is not possible. We don’t need it.”
Bagram was built during the Cold War by the Soviet Union, which initially started construction when the Afghan government at the time turned to Moscow for support in the early 1950s. The airbase served Soviet operations in the country for decades until they withdrew in the late 1980s.
The US revamped the facility following its own occupation of Afghanistan decades later, turning the base into a sprawling mini village with retail facilities that served US soldiers there.
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Trump, the United States, and Israel have put themselves in dire International Law trouble! I am wondering if Trump will be forced out of office because he has been accused by Iran, apparently correctly, that the USA and Israel of the “criminal act” of the United States and Israel in the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, creating a warning that indifference toward such violations would have serious consequences for international peace and security.
Obviously, this puts NATO’s “International Atomic Energy Agency”, a United Nations (UN) agency and such obvious violations of International Law cannot be taken lightly.
I have previously followed this entire questionable chain of Donald Trump’s actions since he invited Iran to renegotiate a new nuclear facilities agreement that had been in force under the Obama administration until Trump cancelled the pact during his 1st term and eventually proposed to negotiate a new pact in his 2nd term in March of 2025 which fell apart because of entirely unnegotiated “impossible” demands on Iran’s ability to continue to operate their current facilities.
Select random dated events are followed by LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY posts from March until today have documented Trump’s entire erratic and contradictory demands, delays, an eventual complete breakdown in talks, followed in the end by the apparent “secret” US/Israel weekend attacks on June 21–22, 2025, known as “Midnight Hammer”. ~llaw
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Iran defers UN draft resolution on nuclear sites attacks after US pressure
TEHRAN – Iran announced on Friday that it has decided to defer consideration of a draft resolution aimed at prohibiting attacks and threats of attack against nuclear facilities, noting that the move was taken to counter the unlawful pressure and intimidation exerted by the United States on the IAEA General Conference.
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN noted that while the majority of member states had expressed readiness to support Iran’s draft resolution, many faced threats of retribution, prompting the deferment to safeguard the integrity of the decision-making process.
On Thursday, Iran’s Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Reza Najafi, addressed Iran’s proposed resolution calling for a ban on attacks against peaceful nuclear facilities. He revealed that while many IAEA member states condemned Israel’s recent military actions, several—despite close relations with Iran and other co-sponsors—reported being subjected to “intense pressure and threats” from the United States to withhold support.
According to Najafi, these states clarified that their abstentions did not reflect their true positions. Instead, they appealed to Iran and its partners to postpone advancing the resolution until next year’s General Conference.
Speaking at the IAEA General Conference under an agenda item proposed by Iran titled “Prohibition of All Forms of Attack and Threat of Attack Against Nuclear Facilities under Agency Safeguards,”, Najafi condemned the “criminal act” of the United States and Israel in attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, warning that indifference toward such violations would have serious consequences for international peace and security.
He stressed that unlawful military strikes on safeguarded nuclear sites not only undermine states’ legitimate rights to the peaceful use of nuclear energy but also directly damage the credibility of the Agency’s safeguards system. “This is a matter of utmost seriousness. The world must send a clear message that such illegal attacks cannot and will not be tolerated,” Najafi said.
Najafi welcomed countries, particularly members of the Non-Aligned Movement, that condemned the aggression, praising their responsible stance. He demanded that both the U.S. and Israel be held accountable for their “gross violations” of international law and the non-proliferation regime.
He reminded the conference that the UN Charter explicitly prohibits the threat or use of force, stressing that no interpretation could justify premeditated military strikes on nuclear sites under IAEA safeguards. He added that such actions contradict both IAEA General Conference resolutions and the 2010 NPT Review Conference, which emphasized the prohibition of attacks on safeguarded facilities.
“Inaction in the face of such aggression cannot be equated with neutrality,” he warned. “It only normalizes unlawful behavior and encourages its repetition. Peaceful nuclear facilities—meant to symbolize transparency and trust—would instead become military targets, putting the entire non-proliferation regime at grave risk.”
Iran has repeatedly raised alarm at international forums over U.S. and Israeli violations of international law through military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Tehran insists its nuclear program remains exclusively peaceful and argues that failure to hold Washington and Tel Aviv accountable risks creating a dangerous precedent for other conflicts.
The debate over Iran’s resolution comes amid heightened tensions following Israel’s large-scale military assault on Iran in June, which included strikes on nuclear sites and was backed by the United States.
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