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Trump-Putin summit to address Ukraine as new arms race looms.

Excluding Zelensky, Putin and Trump will meet in Alaska to discuss “land swaps” consolidating Russian gains in Ukraine.

Aaron Maté, Aug 11, 2025

With his surprise announcement of an upcoming summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump may finally be preparing to fulfill his pledge to end the Ukraine war.

The news of a Russian-US presidential summit coincided with the end of Trump’s self-imposed deadline on Russia, wherein Moscow was told to accept a ceasefire or face crushing new US sanctions. Instead of following through on his threat, Trump only had warm words for Putin, who “I believe wants to see peace.” Trump even suggested that they have agreed on what peace would look like. “There’ll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both,” Trump claimed. “We’re going to get some back, and we’re going to get some switched.”

What exactly Trump means by “swapping” is unconfirmed……………………………………………………(Subscribers only)… https://www.aaronmate.net/p/trump-putin-summit-to-address-ukraine?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=100118&post_id=170622678&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ln98x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

August 12, 2025 Posted by | politics international | Leave a comment

Atomic testament: Yoshito Matsushige and the first photos of Hiroshima’s nuclear toll

Bulletin, By David A. Wargowski | August 6, 2025

In the late morning hours of August 6, 1945, a single shutter clicked in Hiroshima and recorded what no camera had ever captured before, and none has again: the immediate, lived aftermath of a city annihilated by nuclear weapons.

Equipped with one camera and two rolls of film, totaling just 24 possible exposures, Yoshito Matsushige, then a 32-year-old photojournalist, ventured toward the city that morning to report for duty. Fires blocked access to his office, so he turned back and reached Miyuki Bridge (about 2,300 meters from ground zero) where he encountered the unfathomable: charred schoolgirls, civilians with melted skin, and a landscape of human agony.

He could barely bring himself to document it. But his five surviving images—the only known photographs of Hiroshima’s destruction on the day of the bombing itself—are among the most harrowing visual records of the nuclear age………………………………………………………………………………. https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/atomic-testament-yoshito-matsushige-and-the-first-photos-of-hiroshimas-nuclear-toll/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The%20first%20photos%20of%20Hiroshima%20s%20nuclear%20toll&utm_campaign=20250804%20Monday%20Newsletter%20%28Copy%29 

August 12, 2025 Posted by | history | Leave a comment

Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Want to Talk About Golden Dome

National missile defense is still impossible—and expensive.

By Tom Nichols. The Atlantic, 8 Aug 25

Donald Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on a successor to President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, and he’s calling it “Golden Dome,” inspired by both Israel’s Iron Dome defense and Reagan’s early-1980s concept of a “peace shield” over North America. It’s a hugely ambitious project, but Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth apparently would prefer that no one talk about it.

This week, military and civilian experts are in Huntsville, Alabama, for the 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium, a gathering of more than 7,000 top experts, military officers, and defense-industry representatives from around the world. One might think that such a jamboree is the obvious place to cheerlead for a new American missile-defense plan. But one would be wrong: The Pentagon has barred anyone from speaking about Golden Dome in public. Instead, according to Politico, representatives of the Missile Defense Agency joined a closed meeting that was not part of, or sponsored by, the symposium.

This shyness about discussing Golden Dome is probably part of Hegeseth’s clampdown on Pentagon officials going to meetings at think tanks and attending other public symposia. Still, the choice to go silent at this meeting is strange: Golden Dome is projected to cost gobs of money, and SMDS is exactly the kind of place where the government can tell its story and get science, industry, and the military on the same page…………………..(Subscribers only)…. https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/trump-reagan-golden-dome-missile-defense/683799/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

August 12, 2025 Posted by | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

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