W.J. Hennigan's Avatar

W.J. Hennigan

@wjhenn

correspondent, @nytopinion.nytimes.com.

146
Followers
174
Following
40
Posts
16.01.2025
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by W.J. Hennigan @wjhenn

Preview
Opinion | There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground

Trump’s war against Iran has triggered the most consequential nuclear moment in the Middle East in a generation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/o...

07.03.2026 13:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CENTCOM identifies the soldiers KIA in the Iranian attack on Kuwait.

Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.

03.03.2026 23:11 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
This image is a promotional poster for an event by New America, featuring W.J. Hennigan and Amy J. Nelson. It includes their photos and mentions a discussion titled "When Nuclear Danger Becomes Background Noise." The event is scheduled for March 4th, at 12 pm ET, online.

This image is a promotional poster for an event by New America, featuring W.J. Hennigan and Amy J. Nelson. It includes their photos and mentions a discussion titled "When Nuclear Danger Becomes Background Noise." The event is scheduled for March 4th, at 12 pm ET, online.

Join @wjhenn.bsky.social of @nytopinion.nytimes.com and New America's @amyjnelsonphd.bsky.social for a virtual conversation about nuclear risk and threat complacency.

📅 Join us: March 4 at 12 pm ET https://go.newamerica.org/when-nuclear-danger-becomes-noise-5

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Nothing to See Here, Folks

“Why in the world would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody, what we will or will not do in pursuit of an objective?" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

02.03.2026 20:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Why Did Trump Go to War With Anthropic?

The Trump administration waged its latest war of choice this week www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

28.02.2026 01:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Images the Iranian Regime Doesn’t Want You to See These X-rays show evidence of the Iranian regime’s massacre.

The Iranian regime massacred thousands of its own citizens when protests swept the country last month. In this Opinion Video, journalists show the evidence of that brutality, smuggled out by medical workers to the rest of the world.

25.02.2026 13:33 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Join us March 4 with @wjhenn.bsky.social for a conversation on how the public understands, interprets, and responds to nuclear risk.

24.02.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Trump’s Big, Beautiful Arms Control Proposal Is Anything But

Trump team unveiled a new strategy for nuclear diplomacy today in Geneva www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

06.02.2026 20:22 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Preview
Opinion | Let the Arms Race Begin

If Congress doesn’t act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.

02.02.2026 14:01 👍 7847 🔁 2738 💬 328 📌 152
Preview
Opinion | Let the Arms Race Begin

The last major US-Russia nuclear arms treaty is set to expire in less thsn a week www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

30.01.2026 13:32 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee

Here's a thread recapping a few articles, exclusives and explainers that I hope you did not miss in the crush of news in 2025. I'm starting off with an off-beat long read we published on a very busy weekend. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

30.12.2025 15:08 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | To Outbuild China, America Needs Friends For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.

The United States was close to a deal to co-produce Tomahawks at a factory in Japan, potentially doubling production of the missiles. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

13.12.2025 14:26 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | America Can’t Make What the Military Needs The U.S. defense industry has lost the ability to build quickly and effectively.

.@nytopinion.nytimes.com ed-board examines the state of the U.S. defense industrial base and American shipbuilding www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

11.12.2025 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up? Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.

“The speed of warfare will soon outpace human ability to control it." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

09.12.2025 20:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.

series launch from @nytopinion.nytimes.com ed board on rethinking national defense www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

08.12.2025 15:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image Post image

The @statedeptus.bsky.social 2021 "compliance report" is the most detailed unclassified statement on Russian, Chinese nuclear testing. DIA said something similar in 2019. Russia is directly accused of low-yield testing, while there are only concerns about Chinese transparency.

30.10.2025 14:28 👍 55 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 1
Preview
US sought to lure Nicolás Maduro’s pilot into betraying the Venezuelan leader A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman.

A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody.

The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.

28.10.2025 15:40 👍 244 🔁 141 💬 29 📌 49
Preview
Gallery: Sudan’s Civil War A close look at the world’s largest humanitarian crisis

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

10.09.2025 13:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
How the Ukraine-Russia War Is Transforming the Tank They’ve been a mainstay in battle since the early 20th century. But in just three years of war in Ukraine, tanks have evolved.

innovation in war www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

08.09.2025 14:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
How Much Damage Did U.S. Strikes Do to Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site? It may be quite some time before outside experts can gauge exactly how seriously Fordo was damaged. But a look at the bomb used, the facility’s structure and the site’s geology offers some clues.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

20.08.2025 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Trump Is Blurring the Line Between the Military and Law Enforcement

Mr. Trump has chosen instead to “federalize” the units against the wishes of state and local leaders for “emergencies” that few outside his administration can see, particularly as national ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

12.08.2025 01:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | The New Nuclear Generation The adults who were children at the dawn of the atomic era are nearing the end of their lives.

“Today, nuclear war is mostly thought to be the stuff of history books: gruesome, uncomfortable and firmly in the past,” Spencer Cohen writes. But as the risk rises, a generation of young people is waking up to the threat.

09.08.2025 15:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers

Hiroshima’s Pacifist Cause Is Losing Believers www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/w...

06.08.2025 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’ Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

Hiroshima and the End We Refuse to Imagine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

03.08.2025 15:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone.

"no danger to anyone" apnews.com/article/radi...

31.07.2025 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945 Washington, D.C., July 16, 2025 - Early in the morning of 16 July 1945, 80 years ago, the U.S. Manhattan Project staged the first test of a nuclear weapon in the New Mexican desert. It was the first t...

nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

16.07.2025 17:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made

fascinating read www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

15.07.2025 22:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Opinion | Trump Might Get Us Into Another War. Where’s Congress?

It is Congress’ constitutional right to declare war — not the president’s — despite the wide latitude given to the White House during GWOT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

18.06.2025 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret

“If I could wave a wand” to make the H-bomb vanish, he once said, “I would.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

19.05.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
NTI Seminar: A Conversation with New York Times Opinion A virtual conversation with Kathleen Kingsbury and W.J. Hennigan from New York Times Opinion to discuss their “At the Brink” series about today’s nuclear threats.

🚨 One week away! 🚨

Join us May 14 at 2:00pm ET for a discussion with Katie Kingsbury and @wjhenn.bsky.social on the @nytopinion.nytimes.com "At the Brink" series about today's nuclear threats.

Learn more and register:
www.nti.org/events/nti-s...

07.05.2025 20:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0