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Friday Inspiration: we can all come back from low points, in the autumn of 1989, Boris Yeltsin was discovered by police soaking wet under a bridge carrying two bouquets of flowers like some sort of jilted troll. Two years later, he was ruler of Russia. #BelieveToAchieve

I wrote a brief piece about the Soviet space program and its aftermath to accompany Andrew McConnell's remarkable photos of the Kazakh countryside where Soyuz capsules land from outer space. Grateful to Asif Siddiqi for insights and Kelvin L. Williams for facts. newyorker.com/culture/photo-…

Pleased to share that my article, Hunting the Red Bear: Satellite Reconnaissance and the Second Offset Strategy, has been accepted by International History Review. It details the role of satellite recon in the US shift towards more flexible nuclear and conventional targeting

Hard agree.