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Celeo Ramirez

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The Technology to Neutralize Hezbollah’s Drones Already Exists

Israel ordered the evacuation of two hundred thousand residents from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday and began striking Hezbollah...

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You Want to Light Up the Dark Side of the Moon, or What?

You Want to Light Up the Dark Side of the Moon, or What?

Tehran has said it for more than twenty years. The uranium is peaceful. The program is civilian. The enrichment is for energy. The line has survived...

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Iran Wants 60 Days to Build the Nuclear Bomb

Iran Wants 60 Days to Build the Nuclear Bomb

The world is about to exhale. The terms of the deal are out, and they read like relief. A 60-day truce. The Strait of Hormuz reopened, the mines...

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Iran Won’t Give Up Its Uranium and the Hormuz Strait. Trump Knows It.

Iran Won’t Give Up Its Uranium and the Hormuz Strait. Trump Knows It.

It has become a constant. In late March, the president gave Iran forty-eight hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or watch its power grid burn. The...

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Intelligent Autonomous Robots May Be the Solution to Hezbollah’s Drone Threat

Intelligent Autonomous Robots May Be the Solution to Hezbollah’s Drone Threat

Hezbollah lost roughly 90% of its rocket arsenal during the Gaza war, and Iran, its strategic patron, is in economic collapse. And yet the most lethal...

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Lamine: Use Your Brain, Grab a Pen and Write an Opinion

You are eighteen, you have just won La Liga, you have tens of millions of followers, and you have celebrated however you saw fit. I believe you have...

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Why Israel Should Fear a Hantavirus Outbreak Amid War With Iran

The watch window has just opened The outbreak of Andes hantavirus aboard the MV Hondius, the Dutch-flagged cruise ship that left Ushuaia on April 1...

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The Hondius Hantavirus: A Chain of Errors in the Spread

The accountability question after the ship arrives The MV Hondius is expected at the Port of Granadilla in Tenerife in the early hours of Sunday, May...

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The Principal Risk of Hantavirus Lies in Its Long Incubation Period

An unprecedented outbreak at sea On April 1, 2026, the polar cruise ship MV Hondius departed Ushuaia, Argentina, bound for Antarctica and remote...

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Will Trump Fold to Iran or Crush It Before Beijing Meeting Next Week?

Air Force One departs for Beijing on May 14. Between now and then, President Trump must decide whether he lands in the Forbidden City under a...

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Congrats! You’ll Be Sent to the Stone Age

Iran does not believe Trump. That is the simplest explanation for what is happening, and the most dangerous one. On April 29, at four in the morning...

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OK! Let’s Give Iran Everything It Asks For

Fine. Granted. All of it. Every point of the ten-point plan. Every sanction lifted. Every asset unfrozen. Every obedient vote at the Security Council....

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Saul, Saul, Why Are You Persecuting Me?

On Sunday, April 19, 2026, a photograph began circulating on X. It was posted by the Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi. The image showed a soldier...

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Yeah, Sure!! Let’s Do It Together!!

On April 17, President Trump told Reuters that the United States will recover Iran’s enriched uranium in cooperation with Tehran. “We’re going...

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The Battle for Isfahan’s Uranium Is About to Begin

On April 8, 2026, one day after President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a televised statement...

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Trump Besieged the Besieger, But the Oil Problem Remains.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered the United States Navy to blockade all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. On Monday at 10...

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What If Hormuz Pushes This War Into a Nuclear Scenario?

In the winter of 588 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem. His armies encircled the city, erected siege walls, and severed every...

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Let’s Be Honest: Nobody Saw the Strait of Hormuz Coming

“Open the Strait of Hormuz — or there will be consequences unlike anything seen before.” That was, in essence, the message from the President of...

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When They Come for You, They Won’t Ask if You’re a Christian Zionist or Not

On the eve of Easter 2026, a person dressed in black placed an explosive device at the entrance of the Israel Centre in Nijkerk, Netherlands. The...

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The Uranium Is in Isfahan

In my previous article on this blog, I argued that the 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are the only variable that determines who wins...

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The 440 Kilograms That Decide Who Wins the War

The Only Variable That Matters On March 23, President Trump announced a five-day postponement of strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure,...

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Could Unrestricted Claude Have Stopped Iran’s Missiles From Reaching Israel?

The missiles were already flying when the answer started to become clear. The Night Before the Bombs On February 24, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete...

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What a Nuclear Bomb Does to the Human Body: One Mile

In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear detonation: the zone within...

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How Did Israel Find Larijani

On the night of March 16, 2026, the Israeli Air Force launched a series of targeted strikes across Tehran. By Tuesday morning, Israeli Defense...

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What a Nuclear Bomb Does to the Human Body: Ground Zero

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., a thirteen-kiloton uranium bomb detonated 600 meters above the Shima Hospital in Hiroshima. One second later, the...

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The Day I Encountered the B-2 Bomber in the Death Valley Desert

We left Las Vegas at three in the morning. The city was still pulsing behind us, a blur of neon and noise fading in the rearview mirror as we merged...

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The King Who Will Not See the Sun Again

The hounds search for him on every street, And the hawks keep watch from the skies. Is he alive, or is he dead? Conscious or unconscious? By faith he...

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Iran has the nuclear weapon

On March 4, 2026, as American and Israeli strikes entered their fifth day, an Iranian military official told the semi-official ISNA news agency that...

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Iran’s long walk toward Jerusalem

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...

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Why Anthropic denied the Pentagon full access to its AI—in this war or any other

As you read this, the United States and Israel are bombing Iran. Operation Epic Fury. Operation Roaring Lion. Khamenei is dead. Iranian missiles are...

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Could war between the United States, Israel and Iran begin this weekend?

Two American aircraft carrier strike groups are now within operational range of Iran. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group entered US Central...

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The Petrov guardrail: Why AI optimization is a threat to nuclear stability

In September 1983, a Soviet satellite system detected what appeared to be five American intercontinental ballistic missiles streaking toward Russia....

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Four AIs, One Law: How Automation Destroys Jobs and Collapses Economic Demand

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The smile of Netanyahu says it all

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Russian retaliation against Ukraine will be fierce and decisive, but not nuclear

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