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Vladimir Putin, film critic
Puppet Regime

Vladimir Putin, film critic

This summer the only thing hotter than the melting planet has been the BOX OFFICES. Hear what esteemed film critics Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un thought of the season’s blockbusters.

MBS: A Barbie girl living in a Saudi world
Puppet Regime

MBS: A Barbie girl living in a Saudi world

A movie about building a dream world to explore fourth-wave feminism? MBS will be first in line for tickets

Norris Bradbury, group leader for bomb assembly, stands next to the partially assembled Gadget atop the test tower at Los Alamos in 1945.
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Building the bomb, tickling the dragon

“Tickling the dragon’s tail.” That’s how the small group of physicists working at Los Alamos in the 1940s under the watch of Robert Oppenheimer described the dangerous job of assembling a nuclear core for the first atomic bomb. One wrong move and a chain nuclear reaction — the dragon — could have wiped them all out.

Box chart showing number of nuclear weapons by country
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The Graphic Truth: What Oppenheimer worried about

More than 75 years later, there are thousands of nuclear warheads in the world, each of which is vastly more destructive than anything Oppenheimer and his team worked on.

Where is China's foreign minister?
ask ian

Where is China's foreign minister?

What are the consequences from Russia's exit from the Black Sea grain deal? Where is Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang? "Oppenheimer" is out. Will you be watching? Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week on World In :60.

Putin’s moment of truth has come
Puppet Regime

Putin’s moment of truth has come

After many months, Putin has an important decision to make. We can all relate.

The geopolitics of "Barbie"
Quick Take

The geopolitics of "Barbie"

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: "Barbie" is coming out. No, not in that way. Next week in the United States and the United Kingdom, massive launch. You've seen the dreamhouse, you've seen the buses, you've seen the excitement, and now you've seen the geopolitical backlash. It was not what you were expecting. I certainly don't remember there ever being a political science Barbie. Uh, there is a campaign manager Barbie that they made. That's, that's pretty much the opposite when you think about it. And there's also a Chief Sustainability Officer Barbie, that was of course, made of plastic naturally. But never a geopolitical analyst Barbie. Well, maybe that was a mistake, turns out there's a problem.