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Kelsey Atherton

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War, robots, & bad futures, but imagining better. EIC @CIPolicyJournal, opinions my own. Unitarian Universalist. He/him. Husband to @alymaybe, father of 2.

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Trump's 'Golden Dome' system is an expensive way to make America less safe

Trump's 'Golden Dome' system is an expensive way to make America less safe

As past administrations have learned at great cost, intercepting a missile is far harder than launching one.

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Whiskey for Troops™️

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By Kelsey Atherton Verified, Dave Infante Verified
| Fingers Newsletter
Editor’s note: This special joint post from Fingers x Wars of Future Past was originally published Veterans Day 2023, but I think it still holds up.—Dave. If Grunt Style and Black Rifle Coffee Co. opened a distillery, what would it make? Unfortunately, we don’t have to speculate, because this Veterans Day, the militarization of brown liquor is fully upon us. This edition of Fingers is a collaboration with , a longtime military-technology journalist and publisher of the independent newsletter .
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International Policy Journaling

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By Kelsey Atherton Verified
| Wars of Future Past
Hello, Wars of Future Past subscribers. The last time you heard from me, over 19 months ago, I sent out a newsletter as part of a campaign challenging the editorial decisions of Substack as a publisher. I can’t say I’ve found that Substack was responsive to the critique, and most of my fellow co-signatories have either moved platforms or quit newslettering entirely. As for my part, I’ve de-monetized this newsletter, pausing all payments indefinitely.
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Military AI Challenges Human Accountability

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By Kelsey Atherton Verified
| Substack
Davit Khachatryan is an international lawyer and lecturer focusing on the intersection of armed conflict, emerging technologies, and international law. Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to code-stained labs or military contractors’ slideshows: it has become a regular presence on modern battlefields.
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