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Juicing the Nuclear Weapons Complex

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Marty Pfeiffer (@nuclearanthro.bsky.social on Bluesky) is a gadfly to DOE and NNSA, mainly through their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs. He has been complaining that NNSA has not published its annual mandated report to Congress on Stockpile Stewardship, the program that monitors and researches the...
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Know Your BBGN

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Why not make them nuclear powered? The U.S. Navy says its future Trump class battleships are now set to be nuclear-powered. This is a huge development that will impact the cost and complexity of the design. With those issues in mind, now-former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan had said...
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The cost of folly

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On the one hand, the death and destruction aren't accomplishing anything. On the other hand, it's highly inflationary. But at least it's extremely expensive: The cost of the Iran war has risen to $29 billion, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Tuesday, even as the U.S....
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