NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks to nuclear expert James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the dangers of what is being called the new nuclear age.

Nuclear weapons offer an illusion of security. By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift from deterrence to employment, there will be a scenario where the U.S. will use nuclear weapons. And then it’s lights out.

We have just passed through the 60th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin hoax (August, 1964), the false claim of attack by North Vietnam against a U.S. warship. It was used as the pretext to bring full-scale war to Vietnam. The American people were told lies, about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and about the European imperial crimes against Asia that formed the historical background to the Vietnam conflict.

15 years ago, Mikheil Saakashvili’s Georgia was widely regarded by geopolitical observers as a textbook example of what you should not do if you were a former Soviet republic. By contrast, Georgia’s southern neighbor, Armenia, under the presidency of geopolitical “chess master” Serzh Sargsyan, exhibited very much the opposite image—that of a small ex-Soviet state successfully balancing between East and West.

We’re clearly heading toward war with Iran. Is there any scenario where that’s a good thing for the United States? A definitive answer from Jeffrey Sachs.

The arrest of Telegram owner Pavel Durov has sparked widespread concern that this is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens privacy and free speech

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – a crucial barometer and guide in helping preserve the survival of the human race – has now been set at 90 seconds to Midnight since January 2023, the closest setting to Midnight – defined as the outbreak of thermonuclear war – it has ever been.

The right calls Igor Danchenko a Russian spy. The left blames him for the still-unverified information he collected. His own mother thinks he’s a double agent. Now, he’s telling his side

The military is already upgrading warheads capable of fighting a war with both China and Russia simultaneously

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, faces a possible indictment in France