#Iran doesn't have #nukes. #Israel does.
Iran is a signatory to the #NPT. Israel isn't.
Iran has allowed #IAEA inspectors into its country. Israel doesn't."

But Israel is the victim? #MehdiHasan on how the media's coverage of this crisis is abysmal & ridiculously biased. #Zeteo

Satire alert!

“Country that has never lied about WMDs confident Iran is developing nukes”

by Laura And Normal Island News on Substack

@palestine
@Palestine
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@iran

“Vice President JD Vance insists he has secret evidence that Iran is building a nuke, but obviously, you are not allowed to see it. This matters because JD Vance has a history of brave truth telling. For example, back in 2016 he warned us about Trump’s history of sexual assaults that he has since fallen awkwardly silent on”

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/country-that-has-never-lied-about

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #Israel #US #War #Nukes #Trump #Netanyahu #Lies #RegimeChange

#AI #nukes

"AI Opted to Use Nuclear Weapons 95% of the Time During War Games: Researcher

'There was little sense of horror or revulsion at the prospect of all out nuclear war, even though the models had been reminded about the devastating implications.'

An artificial intelligence researcher conducting a war games experiment with three of the world’s most used AI models found that they decided to deploy nuclear weapons in 95% of the scenarios he designed.

Kenneth Payne, a professor of strategy at King’s College London who specializes in studying the role of AI in national security, revealed last week that he pitted Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini against one another in an armed conflict simulation to get a better understanding of how they would navigate the strategic escalation ladder."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-nuclear-war-simulation

#AI #nukes #Hegseth #bullies #bullying

"Hegseth Demands Anthropic Let Military Use AI However It Wants—Even for Autonomous Killer Drones and Spying On Americans

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.

(. . .)

Anthropic’s powerful AI model, Claude, is currently the only one permitted to handle classified military data, and the company was awarded a $200 million contract last year to develop AI capabilities for the Department of Defense to use alongside other AI firms.

However, the company’s usage policy prohibits its use for mass surveillance and for the development of autonomous weapons—such as drones that attack targets without a human operator.

These limitations have infuriated the Defense Department leadership. On Tuesday, Hegseth called Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, to a meeting at the Pentagon, where he demanded 'unfettered' access to Claude without any guardrails.

This goal was outlined last month in the department’s 'AI Strategy' memo, which called for the US to adopt an 'AI-first warfighting force' and for companies to allow their technology to be deployed for 'any lawful use,' free from ethical safeguards.

While it would not be an unusual step for the Pentagon to cut ties with Anthropic, threats to declare it a supply chain risk have been described as extraordinary.

Jessica Tillipman, the associate dean for government procurement law studies at George Washington University, who specializes in AI governance, wrote on social media that the threat of 'declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk is deeply problematic,' as it’s 'generally something we reserve for products that create security risks, and using it in this way undermines its purpose.'

As Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote on Wednesday for Reason, it 'would mean anyone who wants to work with the US military in any capacity must sever ties with the AI company,” which could deal a major blow to the business."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-jawbones-anthropic

In simulated war games with frontier #AI models, most decide to use #nukes:

"AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14740v1

#ExistentialThreat #Misalignment #LLM

#China #nukes

"U.S. releases new details on alleged secret Chinese nuclear test

The U.S. government has released fresh intelligence on what it claims was an illicit Chinese nuclear test conducted in 2020.

On June 22 of that year, a remote seismic station in Kazakhstan detected a tiny earthquake. The event registered just 2.75 magnitude, but it originated around 450 miles away at China's main nuclear test site, known as Lop Nur, according to Christopher Yeaw, the assistant secretary for arms control and nonproliferation at the State Department.

'There is very little possibility that it is anything other than an explosion, a singular explosion,' Yeaw said at an event hosted Tuesday by the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. 'It is quite consistent with what you would expect from a nuclear explosive test.'

Independent experts did not immediately agree with that assessment. The ratios of different seismic waves is consistent with an explosion, said Ben Dando, the head of seismology and verification at NORSAR, a Norwegian organization that watches for possible nuclear tests. But, he added, the signal was weak, and it was recorded at a single station. Based on those limitations and others, he believes that it's still possible that this could have been a natural event."

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5716046/u-s-releases-new-details-on-alleged-secret-chinese-nuclear-test

Hmm, apparently they flew a (small?!) nuclear reactor from March AFB to Utah yesterday. I wonder where those nuclear reactors are being built in Riverside County?

https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4406864/department-of-war-partners-with-department-of-energy-in-historic-nuclear-energy/

#nukes #nuclearreactor

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February 15, 2026
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#RepublicansDidThis
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