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The Hunt: After New Orleans terror attack, US faces ‘challenging’ threat landscape

A week after the shocking terror attack in New Orleans, security officials across the U.S. are scrambling to determine if other threats are looming in the shadows.

On this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green” Fred Burton, executive director of protective intelligence at Ontic, said we are in a very troubling time.

Analysis: Nuclear powers entangled in dangerous simultaneous wars

The world is witnessing a dangerous convergence of conflicts directly involving or influenced by nuclear-armed powers, creating a strategic environment more combustible than any in recent memory. What sets this moment apart is not only the number of flashpoints but also the unprecedented overlap of nuclear states in simultaneous confrontations — with limited diplomacy, eroding safeguards and rising chances of miscalculation.
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