Daily Archives: Jul 2, 2026

"War is optional for Russia but not for Ukraine." So said a Ukrainian intelligence chief, summing up the meaning of the newest escalation: three nights, back to back, of drone strikes on Moscow. A capital once considered untouchable now faces sustained aerial harassment, whose implications extend far beyond the...

Can a single presidential directive upend three decades of nuclear restraint? That is the question now looming large after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to "immediately" resume nuclear weapons testing. The announcement, delivered hours before a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, has reignited...

It started with a claim that sounded like something out of Cold War fiction: a nuclear-powered torpedo capable of unleashing a radioactive tsunami. Yet on October 28, 2025, President Vladimir Putin stood before wounded soldiers and declared the Poseidon underwater drone had completed its first nuclear-powered run a “huge...