gkucs.bsky.social
Director, East Asia, Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists. Non-Resident Fellow, Research Center for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons at Nagasaki University. Cross-cultural sojourner.
👤 Joined on 20 October 2023
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@gkucs.bsky.socialAs my colleague @gkucs.bsky.social pointed out, "As the Pentagon watches 50 years of investments in forward deployed bases in the Middle East get destroyed in a few months by cheap Iranian drones, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink proudly announces the Pentagon is prepared to win a war in outer space."
Show PostA state media documentary provides the first semi-official acknowledgment of China's ICBM silo fields. By highlighting the rush to complete the project, Beijing signals that this expansion is driven by a need to secure a second-strike deterrent against US missile defenses, writes @rrucs.bsky.social.
Show PostMy first for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, a deep dive on a CCTV doc about China's missile silos and thoughts on what a direct reference to the project in prominent media means for our understanding of China's nuclear thinking: thebulletin.org/2026/09/here...
Show PostA new study shows that the NNSA may severely underestimate the risk from plutonium fires at Los Alamos and Savannah River. Geographic limits are much larger and latent cancer fatalities may be 10-100 times worse than NNSA assumes. 🧵
Show Postoh, no. Whatever will Spain do to protect themselves against the Portuguese
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