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October 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Tries to Flex on China by Bringing Back Nuclear Weapons Testing
The last time the U.S. tested a nuclear weapon was in 1992.
October 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
ICE Spent 600% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You.
Donald Trump is arming his masked immigration agents to the teeth.
October 16, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Wants to Fire Missiles Over California on Same Day as No Kings
Donald Trump wants to shut down a stretch of California highway and fire missiles during his second “vanity parade.”
September 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Whines That Current Battleships Are Too Ugly
Donald Trump ranted about how the military should bring back old-school battleships that don’t “melt.”
September 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Said He Was Surprised Israel Attacked Qatar. Here’s the Truth.
Guess how long Donald Trump has known about Israel’s plans?
July 10, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Imposes Pointlessly Disastrous Tariff on Copper
The U.S. currently does not have the capacity to produce enough copper to offset Donald Trump’s new tariff.
July 8, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Burned Through Stockpile of Patriot Missiles at Alarming Rate
The U.S. no longer has enough missiles for all of the Pentagon’s projects.
May 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Finds Laughable New Way to Beg Canada to Join the U.S.
Donald Trump has made his most idiotic pitch yet.
May 25, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
May 20, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Fumbles Key Question as He Unveils Pricey Golden Dome Plans
Donald Trump has long bragged about the expensive military defense project.
April 17, 2025
Marin Scotten
Elon Musk Wants to Own Trump’s Pet Defense Project
Musk continues to try to buy pieces of the government.
November 18, 2019
Ankit Panda
Trump Makes Japan an Offer It Can’t Refuse
The president is shaking down Tokyo and Seoul for billions more in security aid, and testing the foundations of U.S. alliances in Asia.
October 4, 2019
Jared Keller
The Coveted, Overpriced Missile at the Heart of Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
How the president took his predecessors’ gun-running tradition to dirty new depths.
August 21, 2019
Ankit Panda
The Absurd Strategy Behind Russia’s Nuclear Explosion
A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.
April 7, 2017
Clio Chang
The
New York Times
is putting a heartfelt spin on Trump’s bombing of Syria.
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