A while back, when it seemed like a lot of people were becoming ill with covid, I wondered how long it would take to get to herd immunity the hard way. It turned out that, although it seems like horrendous numbers are becoming ill, the...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Relatives and neighbors survey the damage to vehicles in the courtyard of the home of Mr. Ahmadi. Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times On August 29, a Hellfire missile hit.
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.
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 of them! The magic factor is called “leverage,” which along with “deterrence”...
Ending the war in Afghanistan brought out opposition that has been labeled “the Blob.” But who are the Blob? The commonality among those being labeled the Blob seems to be.
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.
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 Kanyon and Status-6, is an uncrewed underwater vehicle that can carry nuclear weapons. Putin has threatened...
Workers using a glovebox to handle radioactive plutonium compounts at a processing plant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA. The National Nuclear Security Administration, the part of the.
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.
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’t gotten around to it for some reason? And who is in each...
The fighter-bomber that was never built. Last weekend, Dan Nexon published a piece I wrote at the Duck of Minerva. There’s an ongoing argument about NATO expansion after the fall.
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)..