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1 month ago | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Kim Eun-jung |Vicky Ge Huang |Song Sang-ho |Henry Sokolski
Quotes of the Day:"Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance."– Henry Giroux"Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nuclear-news.net | Henry Sokolski |Christina MacPherson
Memo to Trump: Address the new threat of drone-vulnerable nuclear reactors By Henry Sokolski | January 17, 2025, https://thebulletin.org/2025/01/memo-to-trump-address-the-new-threat-of-drone-vulnerable-nuclear-reactors/Mr. President, in the closing days of your first administration, you issued an executive order spotlighting the growing dangers of drone attacks against America’s critical energy infrastructure.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebulletin.org | Henry Sokolski |François Diaz-Maurin
Mr. President, in the closing days of your first administration, you issued an executive order spotlighting the growing dangers of drone attacks against America’s critical energy infrastructure. Your order asked the Federal Aviation Administration to propose regulations restricting overflights of critical infrastructure. Four years later, large drones overflying nuclear plants both here and abroad demonstrate your request was spot on.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
copernical.com | Henry Sokolski
Home News War game reveals Chinese attacks on communications could paralyze Taiwan Write a comment Earlier this year, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party asked Elon Musk if he was withholding StarShield satellite services from United States service members […] The post War game reveals Chinese attacks on communications could paralyze Taiwan appeared first on SpaceNews. Read more from original source......
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
spacenews.com | Henry Sokolski
Earlier this year, the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party asked Elon Musk if he was withholding StarShield satellite services from United States service members on and around Taiwan. Musk replied that he was in full compliance with his Pentagon contract. Shortly thereafter, Musk refused a Taiwanese bid to secure Starlink services and Taiwan announced it would be developing a “Starlink” constellation system of its own.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
energycentral.com | Henry Sokolski
By Henry SokolskiLate last month, the House Intelligence Committee chairman volunteered that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state by the end of the year. And earlier this month, the U.S. intelligence community warned that Iran has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.’’ How quickly? Experts now say 12 weeks or less. The mullahs might alert us or stay mum.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Henry Sokolski
Nuclear proliferation is about to go critical. Last week, the House Intelligence Committee chairman volunteered that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state by the end of the year. And earlier this month, the U.S. intelligence community warned that Iran has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.’’ How quickly? Experts now say 12 weeks or less. The mullahs might alert us or stay mum.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Henry Sokolski
August 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDTHenry Sokolski is executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and was deputy for nonproliferation policy at the Pentagon from 1989 to 1993. Nuclear proliferation is about to go critical. Last week, the House Intelligence Committee chairman volunteered that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state by the end of the year.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | Henry Sokolski
Seventy-one years ago, while President Eisenhower was vacationing in Colorado, the Soviets tested their first thermonuclear device. It failed as a true fusion weapon, but the 400 kilotons of energy it released (roughly 25 times more than was released over Hiroshima) rattled Washington. More important, it spurred the formulation of one of America’s most curious endeavors: Atoms for Peace and its policy that spread dangerous nuclear technology world-wide.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Henry Sokolski
Three years after The Washington Post first released photos of China’s construction of more than 300 nuclear missile silos and the Pentagon forecasted China would have at least 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030, our government is still pondering what it should do. Meanwhile, Russia has been developing entirely new nuclear weapons systems—hypersonic nuclear-armed missiles, nuclear anti-satellite weapons, and long-range nuclear torpedoes.
