Partial Nuclear Test Ban News Today

Charlie JP Bennett,   27 Feb 24, https://www.ejiltalk.org/nuclear-space-based-asat-weapons-a-brief-international-legal-perspective/ On 14th February 2024, US and UK media reported the emergence of serious national security concerns by senior American officials and lawmakers that the Russian state was pursuing the deployment of a nuclear-based weapon designed to eliminate (enemy) satellites. It was added that such a weapon had not yet been deployed,…

Attacks in Earth’s orbit as likely to damage Russian interests as western ones, says leading academic Nicola Davis , 15 Feb 24, Guardian, Rumours that Russia is planning to deploy nuclear weapons in space have been dampened down by experts who say that while such technology is possible, there is no need to push the panic button. The…

The Beach Boys, with all three Wilson brothers, played in Davenport for $1.50 in 1963.

The Beach Boys, with all three Wilson brothers, played in Davenport for $1.50 in 1963.

Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev has called a proposal by the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, for Kazakhstan to join the so-called Russia-Belarus Union State a "joke" that has no resonance in the Central Asian country, given its commitments to international treaties.

Irina Alleman, an anchor of the Popular Politics YouTube Channel of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team, was refused entry to Turkey.

The 1958 voyage of the Golden Rule offers important strategic lessons on how to confront an overwhelming evil and win.

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Today is both Bathtub Day and Flower Day!

Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski famously described Ukraine as a “geopolitical pivot” of Eurasia, central to both US and Russian power. Since Russia views its vital security interests to be at stake in the current conflict, the war in Ukraine is rapidly escalating to a nuclear showdown.