W.J. Hennigan
@wjhenn.bsky.social
correspondent, @nytopinion.nytimes.com.
The United States was close to a deal to co-produce Tomahawks at a factory in Japan, potentially doubling production of the missiles. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends
For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The United States was close to a deal to co-produce Tomahawks at a factory in Japan, potentially doubling production of the missiles. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
[email protected] ed-board examines the state of the U.S. defense industrial base and American shipbuilding www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | America Can’t Make What the Military Needs
The U.S. defense industry has lost the ability to build quickly and effectively.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
[email protected] ed-board examines the state of the U.S. defense industrial base and American shipbuilding www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“The speed of warfare will soon outpace human ability to control it." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up?
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The speed of warfare will soon outpace human ability to control it." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
series launch from @nytopinion.nytimes.com ed board on rethinking national defense www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
series launch from @nytopinion.nytimes.com ed board on rethinking national defense www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.
October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.
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A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody.
The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader
A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody.
The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
innovation in war www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Ukraine-Russia War Is Transforming the Tank
They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
innovation in war www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Mr. Trump has chosen instead to “federalize” the units against the wishes of state and local leaders for “emergencies” that few outside his administration can see, particularly as national ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Blurring the Line Between the Military and Law Enforcement
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August 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Mr. Trump has chosen instead to “federalize” the units against the wishes of state and local leaders for “emergencies” that few outside his administration can see, particularly as national ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...
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“Today, nuclear war is mostly thought to be the stuff of history books: gruesome, uncomfortable and firmly in the past,” Spencer Cohen writes. But as the risk rises, a generation of young people is waking up to the threat.
Opinion | The New Nuclear Generation
The adults who were children at the dawn of the atomic era are nearing the end of their lives.
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August 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Today, nuclear war is mostly thought to be the stuff of history books: gruesome, uncomfortable and firmly in the past,” Spencer Cohen writes. But as the risk rises, a generation of young people is waking up to the threat.
Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers
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August 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...
Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’
Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”
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August 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"no danger to anyone" apnews.com/article/radi...
Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs
Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone.
apnews.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"no danger to anyone" apnews.com/article/radi...
fascinating read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made
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July 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
fascinating read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
It is Congress’ constitutional right to declare war — not the president’s — despite the wide latitude given to the White House during GWOT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
Opinion | Trump Might Get Us Into Another War. Where’s Congress?
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June 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It is Congress’ constitutional right to declare war — not the president’s — despite the wide latitude given to the White House during GWOT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
“If I could wave a wand” to make the H-bomb vanish, he once said, “I would.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...
A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret
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May 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“If I could wave a wand” to make the H-bomb vanish, he once said, “I would.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...
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🚨 One week away! 🚨
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Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats.
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NTI Seminar: A Conversation with New York Times Opinion
A virtual conversation with Kathleen Kingsbury and W.J. Hennigan from New York Times Opinion to discuss their “At the Brink” series about today’s nuclear threats.
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May 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
🚨 One week away! 🚨
Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats.
Learn more and register:
www.nti.org/events/nti-s...
Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats.
Learn more and register:
www.nti.org/events/nti-s...
reflective essay from seven eastern european foreign ministers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III
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May 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
reflective essay from seven eastern european foreign ministers www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
"She recalled decoding a congratulatory note transmitted to a German sailor following the birth of his son. His submarine was sunk a few days later." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"She recalled decoding a congratulatory note transmitted to a German sailor following the birth of his son. His submarine was sunk a few days later." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...
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Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Vietnam was the first so-called “living room war,” watched on TV and seen through remarkable photography. Photojournalists captured the war’s most personal moments, the best and worst of human nature. See the photos, 50 years after the war ended. nyti.ms/4iG1Kd0
