To Talk With Putin or Iran, the West Turns to the World’s Nuclear Inspector
Rafael Grossi slipped into Moscow a few weeks ago to meet quietly with the man most Westerners never engage with these days: President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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White House Worries Russia’s Momentum Is Changing Trajectory of Ukraine War
Just 18 months ago, White House and Pentagon officials debated whether Russia’s forces in Ukraine might collapse and be pushed out of the country entirely.
White House Says Israel Still Has Provided No Plan to Protect Rafah Civilians
President Biden’s national security adviser said on Monday that while the United States was committed to Israel’s defense, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had still failed to provide the White House with a plan for moving nearly a million Gazans safely out of Rafah before any invasion of the city.
A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows
American and Chinese diplomats plan to meet later this month to begin what amounts to the first, tentative arms control talks over the use of artificial intelligence.
In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Got Overwhelmed.
The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus.
Israel’s Strike on Iran: A Limited Attack but a Potentially Big Signal
For more than a decade, Israel has rehearsed, time and again, bombing and missile campaigns that would take out Iran’s nuclear production capability, much of it based around the city of Isfahan and the Natanz nuclear enrichment complex 75 miles to the north.
With Nuclear Deal Dead, Containing Iran Grows More Fraught
When Iran agreed to a deal in 2015 that would require it to surrender 97 percent of the uranium it could use to make nuclear bombs, Russia and China worked alongside the United States and Europe to get the pact done.
Biden Is ‘Outraged.’ But Is He Willing to Use America’s Leverage With Israel?
When President Biden said he was “outraged and heartbroken” about the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, his forceful language raised a natural question: Would this strike, even if a tragic error, lead him to put conditions on the weapons he sends to Israel?