Tobin Harshaw, Columnist

Good Nukes, Bad Nukes and Iran’s Nukes

Negotiations with Tehran are made infinitely worse by the Trumpian chaos surrounding America’s foreign-policy brain trust.

June 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

By Tobin Harshaw

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s letters editor.

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