State Department Official: No ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ With Russia on Maintaining New START Limits

Trump Mulls 'Operation Sledgehammer' If Ceasefire Collapses, But Iran Has Re-Armed The Pentagon is considering renaming the war with Iran from "Operation Epic Fury" to "Operation Sledgehammer" if President Trump orders a renewed full-scale bombing campaign against Iran, according to an NBC News report published Tuesday. The report came on the eve of day 75 since the US and Israel launched the conflict. US sources touted to NBC that the United States now has greater military capabilities in the region than it did before the US and Israel launched the war...

Power Transformer Lead Times Hit Record Highs As US Grid Equipment Shortage Deepens By West Garrett of Industrial Sage Summary: Power transformer lead times now average 128 weeks — nearly 2.5 years — with generator step-up transformers averaging 144 weeks Prices for power transformers have risen 77% since 2019, driven by surging demand and constrained raw material supply Cleveland-Cliffs is the only domestic producer of grain-oriented electrical steel, the specialized material transformers require Demand for generator step-up transformers has grown 274% since 2019, outpacing any increase in manufacturing capacity For industrial developers, equipment availability has replaced...

UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were 'Implausible' The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios - and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios," Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling...