Engineers are testing stronger materials, thicker steel-plated doors, and adding features like toilets and emergency communications, shifting safe rooms from short-term panic shelters to mini bunkers.

The upgrades—meant to withstand rockets, break-ins, and longer stays—could raise construction costs by 12–15%, with private shelters reaching $75,000.

Source: Bloomberg

You have to be careful, because Marco Rubio wants to stain your hands with South American, Caribbean, Venezuelan blood, drag you into a bloodbath, and have your last name stained for centuries with a massacre against the people of Venezuela.

The U.S. stopped making TNT in the 1980s due to toxic waste, relying instead on imports and recycled munitions.

Now, Poland’s TNT output is going to Ukraine, while Russia and China stopped exports to the U.S.

Congress approved a $435M Army-run TNT plant in Kentucky, but it won’t start until 2028 and will supply only the military.

Source: NYT

Putin, since the meeting in Anchorage, since the phone call, when the European leaders and Zelensky were at the White House the following Monday, has done the opposite of what he indicated he wanted to do; in fact, he has, in a despicable manner, increased the bombing campaign.

So I think with Trump, all options are on the table, and I think we'll be examining those very closely this week.