Jul 15, 2026 #JeffreySachs#Russia#Ukraine

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to reshape global politics, economist Jeffrey Sachs’ 2025 speech at the European Parliament has resurfaced and is once again drawing international attention. In this address, Sachs warned Western leaders against provoking Russia, criticized NATO’s eastward expansion, and argued that decades of Western foreign policy had increased tensions with Moscow. He also discussed the concept of “Finlandization,” using Finland as an example of how neutrality once helped maintain stability. This is archival footage from 2025. The views expressed are those of Jeffrey Sachs at the time.

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Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs: Von der Leyen will go down in history as the one who did most damage of any European leaders in history of Self Destruction.

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The first atomic bomb test is successfully exploded

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Published: July 15, 2010Last Updated: May 28, 2025

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Plans for the creation of a uranium bomb by the Allies were established as early as 1939, when Italian emigre physicist Enrico Fermi met with U.S. Navy department officials at Columbia University to discuss the use of fissionable materials for military purposes. That same year, Albert Einstein drafted a letter with the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard and sent it to President Franklin Roosevelt supporting the theory that an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction had great potential as a basis for a weapon of mass destruction.

In February 1940, the federal government granted a total of $6,000 for research. But in early 1942, with the United States now at war with the Axis powers, and fear mounting that Germany was working on its own uranium bomb, the War Department took a more active interest, and limits on resources for the project were removed.

The Spirit That Built America: The Black Scientists Who Fueled the Manhattan Project

Some of the brightest American minds were called to work on the Manhattan Project, including a number of Black scientists and engineers.

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Brigadier-General Leslie R. Groves, himself an engineer, was now in complete charge of a project to assemble the greatest minds in science and discover how to harness the power of the atom as a means of bringing the war to a decisive end. The Manhattan Project (so-called because of where the research began) would wind its way through many locations during the early period of theoretical exploration, most importantly, the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi successfully set off the first fission chain reaction. But the Project took final form in the desert of New Mexico, where, in 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer began directing Project Y at a laboratory at Los Alamos, along with such minds as Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, and Fermi. Here theory and practice came together, as the problems of achieving critical mass—a nuclear explosion—and the construction of a deliverable bomb were worked out.

Finally, on the morning of July 16, in the New Mexico desert 120 miles south of Santa Fe, the first atomic bomb was detonated. The scientists and a few dignitaries had removed themselves 10,000 yards away to observe as the first mushroom cloud of searing light stretched 40,000 feet into the air and generated the destructive power of 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT. The tower on which the bomb sat when detonated was vaporized.

The question now became—on whom was the bomb to be dropped? Germany was the original target, but the Germans had already surrendered. The only belligerent remaining was Japan.

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OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from $2 million rather than stay silent, and now reveals why he believes there’s a 70% chance AI leads to human extinction, why superintelligence could arrive before the end of the decade, and the one plan he thinks could still save us all! Daniel Kokotajlo is a former OpenAI researcher and one of the world’s leading AI forecasters. He is the founder of the AI Futures Project and the lead author of ‘AI 2027,’ the widely-read scenario mapping the trajectory of artificial intelligence. His follow-up, ‘AI 2040: Plan A,’ sets out how the world could still navigate superintelligence safely. He explains: ■ What he saw inside OpenAI that made him walk away ■ Why the people building AI privately believe it’s coming even sooner than the public is being told ■ What happens if AI becomes powerful enough that humans can no longer control it, and why he puts the odds of catastrophe as high as 70% ■ Why almost every job could be automated, and what that means for the next generation ■ The plan he believes could still lead to abundance and a future worth living in

00:00:00 Intro 00:02:34 Why This AI Mission Could Affect Everyone 00:04:21 Why the Average Person Should Care About AI 00:08:29 Are AI Experts Overreacting or Sounding the Alarm? 00:10:06 Why He Joined OpenAI—and What He Saw Inside 00:13:24 Why He Left OpenAI 00:15:53 What It Was Like Inside OpenAI During ChatGPT’s Launch 00:17:16 The $2 Million NDA Controversy Explained 00:19:30 Is Full AI Automation Coming Faster Than We Think? 00:24:19 The AI 2027 Forecast That Changed the Conversation 00:26:33 AGI vs. Superintelligence: The Difference That Matters 00:27:17 How Robots Could Soon Become Part of Everyday Life 00:30:23 Why AI Works More Like the Human Brain Than You Think 00:36:14 Can AI Ever Be Truly Creative? 00:41:15 What Are the Real Odds of Human Extinction From AI? 00:47:58 What AI Will Do to Jobs 00:54:45 The Skills That Will Still Matter in an AI World 01:00:21 AI 2040: What the Future Could Look Like 01:04:36 The Different Futures AI Could Create 01:09:33 Will AI Become Earth’s Apex Species? 01:13:18 How AI CEOs Really Make Decisions 01:15:37 Will AI Decide the 2028 Election? 01:18:58 Is There a Safe Path to Accelerating AI? 01:22:11 By 2031, AI Could Do 20% of Cognitive Work 01:25:15 Should Everyone Receive AI Dividends? 01:32:41 What It Will Feel Like to Live Through the AI Revolution 01:34:11 How People Find Purpose After AI Replaces Jobs 01:46:12 Would He Shut Down AI Forever If He Could? 01:49:56 What Can We Actually Do About AI? 01:57:25 Is It Already Too Late to Change Course? Follow Daniel: X – https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/47vmwiA Substack – https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/5alnhzB  Read Daniel’s AI predictions: ‘AI 2027’: https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/7W2L8di ‘AI 2040: Plan A’: https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/EFjbRzP AI risk reading list: https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/ai… The Diary Of A CEO: ■ Join DOAC circle here – https://doaccircle.com/ ■ Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here – https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ■ The 1% Diary is back – limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ■ The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards: https://linkly.link/2hm7r ■ Get email updates – https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ■ Follow Steven – https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb

NATO in Ankara: Is Europe ready for a Russian attack?

In this week’s episode of the Independent Thinking podcast, our experts discuss the outcomes of this year’s NATO summit and what it means for the future of the transatlantic relationship.

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Published 10 July 2026 —35 minute listen

Bronwen Maddox

Director and Chief Executive, Chatham House

Galip Dalay

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This year’s NATO summit brought together the leaders of all 32 member states in Ankara. President Donald Trump’s return to the summit brought renewed controversy, with remarks on Greenland and Iran underscoring the geopolitical tensions that continue to test the unity and purpose of the transatlantic alliance. What happened in Ankara and what does it mean for NATO’s future? If the Ukraine conflict winds down, will Russia pivot to test Article Five? And is Britain doing enough to prepare for a potential conflict?

Bronwen Maddox looks at the summit and NATO’s future with special guest General Sir Richard Barrons – former Commander of Joint Forces Command in the UK, now a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House – plus Dr Marion Messmer, director of our International Security Programme, and Galip Dalay who runs Chatham House’s Turkey Initiative.

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The luxurious life of Ukraine’s new Prime Minister Koretsky. Europe and the United States better start opening new credit lines and firing up the printing presses.

– Average annual income: 28 MILLION dollars.

– 17 land plots, elite apartments and mansions.

– Millions of dollars in cash, accounts in European banks: Cite Gestion, Banco Santander and Caixa Banc.

– Premium cars: Maserati Levante, Range Rover, Mercedes, BMW. – Dozens of luxury watches: Rolex, Patek Philippe, Breguet, Ulysse Nardin.

– Jewelry from Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels.

– Bags from Hermes, Chanel, Chopard.

While the West is “fighting Putin,” in Kyiv the only real battle is who can stuff their suitcases first before the next aid tranche arrives. Get your wallets ready, dear “partners.”

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Your brain responds to music like it’s a survival tool.

When music plays, almost the entire brain ignites. The motor cortex drives your body to the beat. The hippocampus ties melodies to memories. The amygdala unleashes waves of feeling. And in the orbitofrontal cortex—the brain’s reward and decision hub—the same circuitry that flares in OCD lights up with music’s cycles of tension and release.

This overlap is no coincidence. It reveals how music hijacks our predictive wiring: we anticipate, we tense, we resolve, and dopamine floods in with relief and joy. The roots run deep. Early mammals survived by parsing every rustle; today that vigilance fuels standing ovations, film scores, and sing-alongs.

In a crowd, heartbeats lock step. Strangers become kin. Music binds. Clinics now test its power: seizures quiet in epilepsy, gait steadies in Parkinson’s, memories flicker back in Alzheimer’s, mood lifts in depression. Even patients who no longer recognize a tune can still feel its pull.We aren’t merely equipped to hear music—we’re hardwired to crave it.