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Anton Petrus / Getty; Getty; Anthony Gerace The Greatest Nuclear Threat We Face Is a Russian Victory
Putin’s blackmail is dangerous; its success would be even worse.
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Evgeniy Maloletka / AP Time Is on Ukraine’s Side, Not Russia’s
The Ukrainians will win if they keep getting better weapons.
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘I Just Wanted the Whole Thing to Be Over’
Victoria Obidina’s account of her mistreatment in the Russian prison system is just one of thousands of reports of war crimes in Ukraine.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Great Sex in the Time of War
A new entrant into the literature of conflict attends to gossipy intimacy as much as to beatings and bombings.
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Larry Towell / Magnum The Conventional Wisdom About War Crimes Is Wrong
Ordinary people, when seduced by violent ideologies, can be extraordinarily brutal.
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The Atlantic How to Stop the Next World War
A strategy to restore America’s military deterrence
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Tyler Comrie; The Atlantic / Getty Taiwan Faces Its Ukraine Moment
The island’s people seem blissfully oblivious of a looming conflict with China. The U.S. can’t afford that luxury.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Next Afghan-Refugee Crisis Is Right Here in the U.S.
Without congressional action, the tens of thousands of Afghans we evacuated to the United States may be deported in the coming year.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Future of American Warfare Is Unfolding in Ukraine
Aid to Ukrainian forces is achieving more than the long U.S. intervention in Afghanistan did.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Thanksgiving After Fleeing the Taliban
The Afghan journalist Bushra Seddique on America, gratitude, and fried turkey
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The Atlantic The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare
Russia’s war on Ukraine has given us just a peek of the world to come.
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National Archive / Getty; The Atlantic How Close Are We to Nuclear War?
Recent advances in military technology may push us closer to the edge.
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Getty; The Atlantic Putin’s Doomsday Scenario
The West cannot assume that the Russian leader will be a rational actor on nukes if he sees his nation and regime under existential threat.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Fear of Nuclear War Has Warped the West’s Ukraine Strategy
Leaders shouldn’t give in to Putin’s nuclear rhetoric.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Nukes Never Went Away
We just forgot to fear them.
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Marcus Yam / Getty Who Leaves, Who Stays
What happened when one Afghan family was forced to make a life-altering decision with no time to think
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Antonio Masiello / Getty; The Atlantic Will Putin Use Nuclear Weapons? Watch These Indicators.
I asked several experts to share the indicators they’re tracking most closely to determine whether Russian nuclear use in Ukraine is imminent—and to help us all separate the signal from the noise.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Loose Lips Make the Nuclear Threat Worse
The president’s rhetoric will encourage Putin to test American resolve.
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Nava Jamshidi / Getty What Afghans Want the Rest of the World to Know
The country is, once again, the worst place in the world to be a woman.
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Gavriil Grigorov / Sputnik / AP Russia’s Nuclear Bluster Is a Sign of Panic
Yielding to Putin’s blackmail would be folly.
