Al Mauroni
@progmil.bsky.social
NatSec analyst, WMD and nukes, sci-fi enthusiast, gamer
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Al Mauroni
@progmil.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Why We Need to Talk about WMD
First we have to convince Congress to wake up
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We should talk about how the national security community talks about WMD
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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#ChemicalWeapons #Fentanyl #USA #Trump
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
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For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
[...]
For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
thebulletin.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#ChemicalWeapons #Fentanyl #USA #Trump
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
[...]
For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq
thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
[...]
For a moment, let’s ignore the facts that Venezuelan cartels appear to be moving cocaine and not fentanyl out of the ...
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Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
thebulletin.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump’s Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush’s arguments for invading Iraq thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
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ok omg was going to tweet something VERY SERIOUS about how this is the best fentanyl as "WMD" explainer but then i got to the kicker and i actually laughed out loud, millennial that i am
no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself
no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
thebulletin.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ok omg was going to tweet something VERY SERIOUS about how this is the best fentanyl as "WMD" explainer but then i got to the kicker and i actually laughed out loud, millennial that i am
no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself
no screenshot spoilers it's too good you have to get there yourself
Here we go again. thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
Fentanyl is no WMD, but Trump's Venezuela claims eerily echo Bush's arguments for invading Iraq
If the Trump administration's increasingly belligerent rhetoric about Venezuela sounds familiar, it's because it is: The George W. Bush administration was making similar arguments during the lead-up t...
thebulletin.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here we go again. thebulletin.org/2025/12/fent...
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@progmil.bsky.social has the best arguments why this is a very bad idea
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FENTANYL IS NOT A CHEMICAL WEAPON
Wow, it's tiring to repeat this so often
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December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@progmil.bsky.social has the best arguments why this is a very bad idea
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mwi.westpoint.edu/fentanyl-sho...
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The ASD (ND-CBD) should not be a joint policy-acquisition position, but there it is. almauroni.substack.com/p/defense-po...
Defense Policy versus Defense Acquisition
It's a power play that hurts the Department's goals
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December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The ASD (ND-CBD) should not be a joint policy-acquisition position, but there it is. almauroni.substack.com/p/defense-po...
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My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
The Most Awful Responsibility – Alex Wellerstein
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December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My new book, THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY goes on sale TODAY! It is a NEW argument about TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, from Hiroshima through the Korean War, from HarperCollins. alexwellerstein.com/writing/book...
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The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
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Curing a chemical hangover
Many tons of chemical warfare agents and precursors are still unaccounted for in Syria. The longer suspected weapons sites remain unexamined and insecure, the higher the risk that whatever chemical we...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
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Some nuclear professional reading, if you're looking for recommendations
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Nuclear Professional Reading List
Just to round out your holiday shopping
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December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Some nuclear professional reading, if you're looking for recommendations
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Watching “Jurassic Park Rebirth” and I think I can feel my brain cells dying. What an incredibly poorly written show.
a person in a t-rex costume is standing in a living room with their mouth open .
ALT: a person in a t-rex costume is standing in a living room with their mouth open .
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December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Watching “Jurassic Park Rebirth” and I think I can feel my brain cells dying. What an incredibly poorly written show.
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Some comments as I read the National Security Strategy, released last night in an attempt to divert attention from, or perhaps to justify, killing fishermen on the high seas.
What *Should* The United States Want?
This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.
What *Should* The United States Want?
This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Some comments as I read the National Security Strategy, released last night in an attempt to divert attention from, or perhaps to justify, killing fishermen on the high seas.
What *Should* The United States Want?
This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.
What *Should* The United States Want?
This is an, um, interesting phrasing, especially with "Should" italicized.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
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gives cause for great optimism."
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December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Funny how the @postopinions.bsky.social didn’t post its op-ed on (checks notes) extolling Charlie Kirk’s great humanitarian acts on BlueSky
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Funny how the @postopinions.bsky.social didn’t post its op-ed on (checks notes) extolling Charlie Kirk’s great humanitarian acts on BlueSky
Looking for some reading recommendations for WMD books? almauroni.substack.com/p/the-nation...
The National Emergency with Respect to WMD Proliferation Continues
It's still a thing, even if no one talks about it. But you can read about it.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Looking for some reading recommendations for WMD books? almauroni.substack.com/p/the-nation...
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I have taken
the knowledge
of the nuclear
weaponry
which you
were probably
saving
for MAD
forgive me
the nuclei are
so fast
war so cold
the knowledge
of the nuclear
weaponry
which you
were probably
saving
for MAD
forgive me
the nuclei are
so fast
war so cold
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have taken
the knowledge
of the nuclear
weaponry
which you
were probably
saving
for MAD
forgive me
the nuclei are
so fast
war so cold
the knowledge
of the nuclear
weaponry
which you
were probably
saving
for MAD
forgive me
the nuclei are
so fast
war so cold
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Collective, racist punishment.
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Collective, racist punishment.
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It’s time to ratify the CTBT before this idea about nuclear testing takes off. open.substack.com/pub/almauron...
It's Time to Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Before some idiot starts open-air nuclear tests as a way to measure masculinity
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It’s time to ratify the CTBT before this idea about nuclear testing takes off. open.substack.com/pub/almauron...
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I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
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How to Topple Maduro
And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"
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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Our future ASD(ND-CBD) has had his confirmation hearing, but it doesn't reveal much. almauroni.substack.com/p/bob-kadlec...
Bob Kadlec Speaks!
The nominated ASD(ND-CBD) gets his moment before the Senate Armed Services Committee
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November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our future ASD(ND-CBD) has had his confirmation hearing, but it doesn't reveal much. almauroni.substack.com/p/bob-kadlec...
If I'm going to watch a drama about nuclear weapons, I expect a better script
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Could We Write a Better Script?
Honestly, my last shot at "A House of Dynamite"
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November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
If I'm going to watch a drama about nuclear weapons, I expect a better script
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Pluribus is a sci-fi series that starts with a scene at US Army Medical Institute for Infectious Diseases. How cool is that?
Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus is incredible, and feels like it may have been designed as an eff you to the Emmys for never awarding Rhea Seehorn
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Pluribus is a sci-fi series that starts with a scene at US Army Medical Institute for Infectious Diseases. How cool is that?