Overview
- Karen Hölmberg of the Pugwash Conferences said the nuclear taboo is being broken and urged renewed dialogue as the group convenes its world meeting in Hiroshima.
- CNN reported the Defense Department told the White House it would accept supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, but President Trump decided not to provide them.
- Israeli media said the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, identified as Kane, visited Israel and inspected a U.S.-set civil‑military center for monitoring a Gaza ceasefire.
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry formally protested Japan’s Oct. 20–31 integrated Self‑Defense Forces exercises near the Russian Far East, calling them provocative and a potential threat.
- U.S. military provosts conducted their first standalone patrol in central Naha as a measure following repeated sexual violence incidents involving service members in Okinawa.