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North Korea's estimated arsenal and fissile material, and expert judgments that denuclearization is no longer attainable.
Musk, Amodei, Altman and the CIA's director all reach for nuclear precedent, and a Foreign Affairs essay sets out why the three governance designs built on it assume a traceable inventory and state ownership that frontier AI lacks.
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Tehran's unified command is treating renewed US action as a settled decision and has threatened the region's American bases, while the chairman of parliament's security committee says the Hormuz agreement is being held up.
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Netanyahu put Iran two weeks from a nuclear weapon after the IAEA sent Tehran's file to the Security Council and said restricted access leaves it unable to verify the material. The talks contract moved on the words.
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The Board of Governors sent Iran's file to the Security Council on the same day Rafael Grossi confirmed construction at Pickaxe Mountain, a site the agency has been asking to inspect since mid-2025.
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A study of Copperbelt geology and plant throughput estimates that 25 years of cobalt hydroxide shipments carried natural uranium, less than a tenth of it declared to the IAEA. The DRC is now testing outgoing loads.
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The order to "substantially reduce" US-South Korea exercises came with no meeting scheduled and no public reply from Pyongyang. That makes it a planning input, not a headline.
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