Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
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In 2016, U.S. said it will allow the IAEA to monitor the plutonium disposition process. It is not known if the IAEA was monitoring this shipment
US begins shipping excess plutonium to WIPP for disposition https://fissilematerials.org/blog/2023/01/us_begins_shipping_excess.html This is the "dilute and dispose" program that will place up to 6 MT of non-pit plutonium in WIPP.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fissilematerial/status/1619044715441307649
In December 2022 US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Environmental Management completed the first shipment of plutonium from the K-Area of the Savannah River Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Mew Mexico....
I'd say that great powers do arms control when they feel like it. And don't when they don't.
Heather Williams @[email protected] hopes China comes to understand that arms control: 1) is what great powers do, & 2) can get them things they want (isn’t a gift you give to someone else)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DouglasBShaw/status/1618646903331364865
This is a defeatist attitude. 'Tactics once considered immoral and unthinkable' cannot just 'become commonplace' They have no agency. If we don't make them become something they never will
Eric Schlosser has a similar analysis in his new essay @[email protected]. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/russias-invasion-ukraine-war-nuclear-weapon-nato/672727/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Cirincione/status/1617572598216523778
What do you expect from the poor Elon Musk if even NASA doesn't quite get rocket propulsion and Newton's Third Law. Or people who try to explain it...
3rd law also tells us how thrust is produced. In a rocket or jet you push something (air, fuel, etc) out one direction. This produces a reaction force in the opposite direction. That’s what we call thrust
Same deal with aircraft propellers, swimming, and birds flapping wings
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1612103391379091457
“3rd law also tells us how thrust is produced. In a rocket or jet you push something (air, fuel, etc) out one direction. This produces a reaction force in the opposite direction. That’s what we call thrust Same deal with aircraft propellers, swimming, and birds flapping wings”
A good take on ChatGPT etc. by @[email protected]. Chimes with something I've seen elsewhere - there are too many texts that just regurgitate or simply copy-paste what is already out there. People who produce them are in trouble. Which may be a good thing
Ask not for whom the ChatGPT bell tolls, it tolls for thee...Read @[email protected]'s latest and go have a good cry https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-05/chatgpt-and-dall-e-have-come-to-save-the-arts-from-themselves?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter?sref=ubZrhLHZ via @[email protected]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jamesgibney/status/1611037862904107010
