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...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
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)..
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) Laboratory for 35 years, on a variety of projects from laser...