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David Axe
Personal blog · daxe.substack.compoliticshistory
David Axe writes Trench Art, a personal blog at daxe.substack.com about politics and history. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Terrible Idea”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
War news, analysis and commentary from David Axe.
Most-linked posts?
- Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Terrible Idea2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-30
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Dr John C. Clark, a scientist who disarmed atomic bombs twice as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSubmitted After 20k Losses, Russia Is Now Functionally Out of Armored Vehicles as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Il-2 Sturmovik Wrecked Nazi Tanks as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Russian Troops Are Lobbing Chemical Rockets in Eastern Ukraine as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ukrainians Built a Jammer That Tells Russian Drones They're in Peru as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Terrible Idea as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted In 1966, Israeli Intelligence Convinced an Iraqi Pilot to Defect with His MiG-21 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted In 2003, a U.S. Air Force F-16 and a U.S. Army Missile Battery Fought Each Other as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Japan's Midget Submarine Attack on Pearl Harbor Was a Suicide Mission as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Find a Missing H-Bomb as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In the 1980s, Iran Outfitted F-14s as Heavy Bombers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted This Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Really Terrible Idea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tomahawk Cruise Missile's First Mission Was over Iran–In 1991 as a story · 1 points
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