This may be simple and obvious, but it’s worth saying. The more virus there is around, the more danger to all of us, including the vaqccinated. That’s why nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) li
This article clearly enunciates a particular strain of conventional wisdom and coats it in sugar. You too can have moar arms control and moar nonproliferation by making moar kinds of weapons and moar
As we try to look past the abysmal reporting on the evacuation from Afghanistan, one of the things that strikes me is the inability or unwillingness of reporters to visualize what is required to make
Vladimir Putin has proudly announced that Russia is developing superweapons that will get around the American missile defenses he sees as destabilizing the nuclear standoff. Poseidon, also known as Ka
I’ve had a vision of writing a magisterial series to clarify everything about the mathematics of the pandemic, but it looks more like I will, hit-or-miss, do one issue at a time. I’ve worked with
Do we need another post on the residual unvaccinated? Yes, this time with numbers! I’ve wanted to understand the breakdown of the unvaccinated. How many are hard-core antivax and how many just haven
July and August are atomic history months. The two weapons that the Manhattan Project had worked feverishly to build were dropped on Japan on August 6 (Hiroshima) and 9 (Nagasaki). A device of the Nag
I’m glad to be here. Some of you know me. I’ve been blogging since 2004 and commented on a now-defunct message board before that. I worked at the Los Alamos Scientific (and then National) Laborato