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Matt Korda

@mattkorda.bsky.social
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I count nukes for the Federation of American Scientists + the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 🇨🇦 Views my own.

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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google’s motto famously used to be “don’t be evil.” However, its latest feature––generating deepfake satellite imagery––*briefly* made being evil a whole lot easier. I wrote about this new tool, which was paused after less than 48 hours due to entirely predictable backlash. fas.org/publication/...
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Google Introduces Deepfake Satellite Imagery: “It’s Fun!” - Federation of American Scientists
Google’s motto famously used to be “don’t be evil.” However, its latest feature has just made being evil a whole lot easier.
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm excited to share that I've been promoted to Research and Project Manager for the Nuclear Information Project @scientistsorg.bsky.social! Pinching myself everyday that I get to work and grow on this team. Forever grateful to @mattkorda.bsky.social and @nukestrat.bsky.social for believing in me 🥲
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our updated world nuclear arsenal overview in the SIPRI Yearbook is now public. Honored to assemble, with @mattkorda.bsky.social, this annual production with @sipri.org to assist the public debate about the status and future of nuclear weapons. Press release: www.sipri.org/media/press-...
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Tomorrow is the last day to apply for @scientistsorg.bsky.social’s 2026 Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp! Get those apps in!
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Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
fas.org/osint-bootca... This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in open source techniques for nuclear and other research. Highly recommend this learning opportunity from my former organization. @mattkorda.bsky.social @nukestrat.bsky.social @scientistsorg.bsky.social
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2026 Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp - Federation of American Scientists
In June 2026, FAS is hosting a bootcamp to pass on its practices to the next generation of open-source nuclear analysts.
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨 Attache ta tuque! @scientistsorg.bsky.social is hosting our 2nd Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp in partnership with @stanleycenter.org in Montréal on June 21-26! Come hang out and learn: • Geolocation • Missiles • FOIA • Imagery analysis • Poutine 🍟 • Bagels 🥯 C'est le fun! 👇
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
in which @mattkorda.bsky.social explains what he calls 'Plan B' now that there is no nuclear treaty regime
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AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much...
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Helpful analysis here from @mattkorda.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social fas.org/publication/...
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The Pentagon's (Slimmed Down) 2025 China Military Power Report - Federation of American Scientists
The Pentagon's new report provides additional context and useful perspectives on events in China that took place over the past year.
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
🚨 New @scientistsorg.bsky.social report by Igor Morić + me tackling a critical question: Given that on-site nuclear arms control verification between the US + Russia is unlikely in the near-term, could a cooperative use of remote sensing tools act as a replacement? fas.org/publication/...
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Inspections Without Inspectors
This report outlines a framework relying on “Cooperative Technical Means” for effective arms control verification based on remote sensing, avoiding on-site inspections but maintaining a level of trans...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"There is no upside" - @mattkorda.bsky.social
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Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid
Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The AL East standings look a little different tonight 👀
A screenshot of the AL East standings over a photo of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette celebrating sweeping the Yankees.
The standings are:
TOR - 49-38 - .563
NYY - 48-39 - .552 - 1 GB
TB - 48-39 - .552 - 1 GB
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
:D HOW DID I MISS THIS GETTING RELEASED?!? I love nuclear weapon targeting planning! It’s so baroque & detailed and bizarre! Am going to read today. Nicely done @mattkorda.bsky.social @nukestrat.bsky.social
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Eliana Johns @elianajjohns.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
📌 ICYMI, @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @mknight.bsky.social, and I just released a pretty cool report on the targeting strategies of nuclear-armed states. Check it out!
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Impressive piece of work by my colleagues @mattkorda.bsky.social and @mknight.bsky.social on the extraordinary mess in the new Sentinel ICBM program: The Two-Hundred Billion Dollar Boondoggle. 👇
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🚨Our @scientistsorg.bsky.social team's latest piece is out in our Next Nuclear Age series with @postopinions.bsky.social:🚨 @jonatomic.bsky.social, @nukestrat.bsky.social, and @mattkorda.bsky.social discuss the uncertain and worrisome future of nuclear proliferation in this phenomenal piece:
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Opinion | What’s making some countries daydream about nukes again?
With or without Iran, the number of nuclear states could double, raising the risk of catastrophe.
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Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
can someone make xcom 3 pls
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
An administration that claims to be obsessed with eliminating waste should look no further than the Sentinel ICBM program. @mknight.bsky.social and I have done a deep dive into the system; we explore why the program is so behind schedule, over-budget, and poorly managed. 👇 fas.org/publication/...
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The Two-Hundred Billion Dollar Boondoggle - Federation of American Scientists
Nearly one year after the Pentagon certified the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program to continue after it incurred critical cost and schedule overruns, the new nuclear missile could on...
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Mackenzie Knight-Boyle @mknight.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚀In our latest @scientistsorg.bsky.social report, @mattkorda.bsky.social & I spill all things Sentinel: ✅ How did we get here? 📈 Why does the cost keep rising? 🤷‍♀️ Where's the program at now? 🕳️ What's up with the new silo situation?? Read here ⬇️⬇️
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I am honored to contribute with @mattkorda.bsky.social the chapter on world nuclear forces in the 2025 SIPRI Yearbook that went public today: www.sipri.org/media/press-... A PDF of the chapter is here: www.sipri.org/sites/defaul... @sipri.org
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Nuclear risks grow as new arms race looms—new SIPRI Yearbook out now
(Stockholm, 16 June 2025) The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) today launches its annual assessment of the state of armaments, disarmament and international security. Key findi...
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I appreciate how this very good piece is both historically grounded and attuned to the novel nuclear risks of today - from @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @elianajjohns.bsky.social, and @alliemaloney.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | How nuclear war could start
Nuclear accidents are a fact of life for as long as these weapons exist.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The last nuclear age was defined by the United States and the Soviet Union. "Today’s global nuclear landscape is far more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious." From @jonatomic.bsky.social, @nukestrat.bsky.social and @mattkorda.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social: wapo.st/4dRnfXC
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Opinion | Why we should worry about nuclear weapons again
Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are grateful to Washington Post for giving us their pages for a series of articles over the next several weeks about nuke weapons challenges facing the world. The first article with my colleagues @jonatomic.bsky.social and @mattkorda.bsky.social is below. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
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Opinion | Why we should worry about nuclear weapons again
Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation, and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.
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hakan @hatr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
SPIEGEL and „Danwatch“ analyzed two million docs on procurement data (filtered for biggest military contractors), detailing specific needs, e.g. type of steel, insulation thickness. Shows how systematically Russia is ramping up nuclear weapons architecture www.spiegel.de/ausland/russ...
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(S+) Russland modernisiert Atomwaffensilos und setzt dabei auf deutsche Marken
Dokumente aus Russland zeigen, dass für den Ausbau von Atomwaffenstützpunkten Material westlicher Konzerne geordert wurde. Auch vom fränkischen Gipshersteller Knauf.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say "oh. no. you were fine, you were more than fine. it is I who was cringe"
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Our new FAS Nuclear Notebook on Russian nuclear forces is now available. We estimate a stockpile of just over 4,300 warheads, modernizations, but also delays. Earlier STRATCOM projection of significant increase in tac nukes has not yet materialized. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Amelia @ameliamar.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Gasping at straws. they're just so beautiful
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’
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John Fetterman’s Struggle
The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
And as the nuclear world is more chaotic than ever, our Nuclear Information Project team keeps publishing accurate, readable assessments of who has weapons and how many fas.org/initiative/s...
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Status of World Nuclear Forces - Federation of American Scientists
Despite progress in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, the world’s combined inventory of nuclear warheads remains at a very high level.
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Follow along with us to see how we’re building bridges between science and innovative public policy. It’s the only way forward.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
ok i give up. are canadians voting for a new pope
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wikipedia editors on the Katy Perry talk page came to a resounding conclusion against calling her an astronaut
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’m bummed illness prevents me from attending @carnegieendowment.org #NUKECON next two days. But if you’re going, make sure to check in with my colleagues @mknight.bsky.social @mattkorda.bsky.social @elianajjohns.bsky.social @jonatomic.bsky.social from the @scientistsorg.bsky.social nuke team! 👋
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I've long been a fan of Senator... [checks notes] ... Van Halen
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 03/04/2025
It’s weird how extra costs trickle down to consumers but extra profits don’t. What’s that all about
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New arms control proposal: 10,000% tariffs on Russian, Chinese, and North Korean reentry vehicles crossing into US territory.
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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
One less-noticed success in the Canadian counteroffensive: The most famous thinkers at Yale — specifically writers on fascism — are being serially scooped up by the U of T’s Munk School as they express a desire to flee the Trump assaults on universities
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Vice President texting the group, "chat are we cooked"
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Here's a great job opportunity for someone looking to make an impact in nuclear philanthropy www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
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Longview Philanthropy hiring Program Associate in Washington DC-Baltimore Area | LinkedIn
Posted 5:48:20 PM. Nuclear Programme Associate or Senior Programme AssociateWe seek a Programme Associate to support…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Alarmed by the gutting of the federal government? Don't worry, the top Democrat in Congress is, uh...doing a book tour?
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
watching how quickly all this is happening and thinking back to the senate saying they can't act without permission from the parliamentarian
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ceej @ceej.online · 15/03/2025
Beware the vibes of March
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Matt Korda @mattkorda.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
get ready to learn swedish, canadian air force
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