On June 23, Jill Marie Hruby, the first woman head of the US Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, the US Department of Energy's Deputy Secretary for Nuclear Security, held a meeting with the students of Ilia State University, organized by the US Embassy in Georgia. At the meeting, a mechanical engineer, Jill Hruby talked to the students […]

The Black Sea region looms increasingly large as the locus of great power military, political, and economic competition. Russia has chosen the region as a focal point of its challenge to the Western security order, as its 2008 invasion of Georgia and its 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine make clear. Geopolitically, the region is […]