Mackenzie Knight-Boyle
Senior Research Associate @ Federation of American Scientists - Nuclear Information Project
Mother to a demonic chihuahua named Pippin 🐾
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- Fixed it for you @nytimes.com
- THAT’S MY HEISMANDOZA
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- I frickin knew the East Wing “ballroom” construction was actually a cover for a new ICBM silo
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- ‼️ Our latest @scientistsorg.bsky.social Nuclear Notebook is out: The changing nuclear landscape in Europe Nuclear postures in Europe are evolving, and the role of nukes is on the rise... 🔗 Read more here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Had so much fun creating my first ever ArcGIS StoryMap based on a report by the amazing @christinaisa.bsky.social that breaks down for aspiring analysts how to do satellite imagery analysis of nuclear sites. Check out the StoryMap at the link in the post below!⬇️⬇️
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- Me making a social media appearance for the first time in months to make fun of Donald Trump
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- I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post
- Interestingly, following recent reports that Sentinel would require "predominantly" new silos, the GAO report says only: "the Air Force is reassessing all aspects of its plan to field Sentinel, including the extent to which Sentinel will use the existing Minuteman III launch facilities."
- With the new GAO Sentinel report out, this feels like a great time to promote @mattkorda.bsky.social and I's recent report on Sentinel: The Two-Hundred Billion Dollar Boondoggle. We knew the Air Force would have to life-extend MMIII (and that they could have all along). Read more below 👇
- GAO confirms what Defense Daily reported back in January: "Air Force officials are assessing options to potentially operate Minuteman III through 2050." I seem to recall many arguments in favor of Sentinel resting on the premise that Minuteman could not be life extended 🤔
- New report from the GAO on the Sentinel ICBM program 👀 this should be good
- don't worry guys there's gonna be a coffee bar at the new F-35 complex at Kleine-Brogel www.jandenul.com/news/foundat...
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- The president has sole authority to order nuclear use- How did we get here? How does it work? What’s the issue? Can we solve it? My new @scientistsorg.bsky.social report on nuclear launch authority in the U.S. - “All the King’s Weapons” - is out! Read it below 👇 fas.org/publication/...
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- Lots to read from our team today! 🚨 Our latest @scientistsorg.bsky.social nuclear notebook is out in @thebulletin.org: 🇵🇰 Pakistan nuclear weapons, 2025 by @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @elianajjohns.bsky.social, and yours truly Read it below ⬇️
- TL;DR of nukes at China's military parade yesterday: 🤔 DF-61 - new ICBM?? 🕳️ DF-31BJ - silo loader? ✈️ air-launched ballistic missile? 🔺 entire nuclear triad displayed for first time Read our @scientistsorg.bsky.social team's full analysis below:
- If u need me I'll be grumbling in the corner about China calling the new ALBM the JL-1
- My sister and I are running the Chicago Marathon this October to raise money for the American Liver Foundation, and we’re just over $1000 away from our $5k goal! Please consider donating at the following link to help us reach the finish line 🤩🏁: liverlifechallenge.org/chicago/supp...
- 80 years since the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. This is not history - there are still survivors of this bombing alive today. It is our duty, as the last generation capable of hearing their direct testimony, to listen to their stories and ensure it never happens again.
- Absolutely disgusted and disappointed to be a Hoosier with this news. Giving a literal concentration camp a quirky alliterative name - especially one that’s supposed to invoke some sort of Indiana pride - is pure evil.
- It’s not every job where you get to teach a roomful of aspiring OSINT practitioners how to dissect and analyze satellite imagery for nuclear weapons research. But this is a real workplace hazard at @scientistsorg.bsky.social. Inaugural OSINT Bootcamp was 💯🤩 Let's do it again every day, ok guys? 🥹
- My latest in @postopinions.bsky.social - the 5th installment of our @scientistsorg.bsky.social series "The Next Nuclear Age" How a president might come to launch a nuclear strike Massive thanks to @sebphilippe.bsky.social for helping us model what a nuclear attack on DC might look like ⬇️⬇️
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- 🚨Our @scientistsorg.bsky.social team's latest piece is out in our Next Nuclear Age series with @postopinions.bsky.social:🚨 @jonatomic.bsky.social, @nukestrat.bsky.social, and @mattkorda.bsky.social discuss the uncertain and worrisome future of nuclear proliferation in this phenomenal piece:
- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleZohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
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- 🚀In our latest @scientistsorg.bsky.social report, @mattkorda.bsky.social & I spill all things Sentinel: ✅ How did we get here? 📈 Why does the cost keep rising? 🤷♀️ Where's the program at now? 🕳️ What's up with the new silo situation?? Read here ⬇️⬇️
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- Like I said- unfortunately timely 🫣
- Really proud of my new piece on the president’s nuclear launch authority for our team @scientistsorg.bsky.social’s Next Nuclear Age series in @washingtonpost.com ! Unfortunately it turned out to be quite a timely one. Give it a read ⬇️⬇️⬇️
- Really proud of my new piece on the president’s nuclear launch authority for our team @scientistsorg.bsky.social’s Next Nuclear Age series in @washingtonpost.com ! Unfortunately it turned out to be quite a timely one. Give it a read ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleProtesters instigating violence in Boston, March 5, 1770.
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- 🚨: Webinar! Russia! Nukes! 🗓️: Tomorrow! 🙋♀️🙋♂️: Hans! Me! Friends! Register to attend! ⬇️
- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleHASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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- Married my best friend yesterday 🤍 @kjboyle.bsky.social
- Wanna learn about our team at @scientistsorg.bsky.social's 2025 China nuclear forces estimates but you're more of a visual learner?? The team at @thebulletin.org put together an amazing video on YouTube that distills the topline info from our Notebook into 6 minutes 🤩
- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleYou can catch our nuclear triad (@mknight.bsky.social , @alliemaloney.bsky.social, and @elianajjohns.bsky.social) repping Team FAS at #NukeCon 🚀 Say hi!
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- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleYes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
- Great new piece on the Trump admin's antilabor practices and recent slashing of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service by my fiancé @kjboyle.bsky.social
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- Zero percent surprised that Mike Waltz's defense is "I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but...."
- Reposted by Mackenzie Knight-BoyleUnidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- This is extremely concerning evidence of Trump's colonial ambitions.
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- "Europe now faces a choice: to cling to Cold War relics while the planet burns, or to pioneer a security paradigm prioritising planetary survival over great-power vanity." Phenomenal new piece (no surprise there) by @olamidediy.bsky.social
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- Incredible
- The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
