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11/27/2023

In a conversation on Bluesky, I commented that I have never found an explanation of the neural net part of the LLMs like ChatGPT that makes sense. “It works like your brain” is clearly not an expla…

11/12/2023

Elon Musk is hardly a fan of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and its regulations. Reuters investigated the extent of his non-fanhood. It’s horrifying. There is a certain strain of…

11/06/2023

At some point Russia’s war on Ukraine will end. There will be agreements to end the war. But there is a larger question of how the world deals with Russia. That’s what I’m discussing in this post –…

11/03/2023

Some good news for a change: On Monday, China’s foreign ministry said the two countries would hold “consultations on arms control and non-proliferation” in the coming days, as well as separate talk…

10/30/2023

Revisionist history of the 1990s is in full swing. Here’s the latest. New materials have surfaced that support my preferred point of view! Let me give you a selection! The article gives the impress…

10/24/2023

Apparently collecting uranium glass is currently A Thing. In a discussion on Bluesky last week, someone offered up this Washington Post article from a year ago. It’s got some problems. Uranium glas…

10/23/2023

Now that the government has turned responsibility for covid vaccine distribution over to the private sector, we are seeing delays and shortages that didn’t take place during the declared state of e…

10/16/2023

Deterrence is a favored word among all too many military and defense strategists. It is wildly overused, to a point where its use stymies thought. If an action (or expenditure) is claimed to promot…

10/11/2023

Elon Musk is well along in his project to destroy Twitter. Recent developments are removing headlines from links and publishing only a graphic that can be clicked on, and his recommendation of two …

10/09/2023

At the Valdai Discussion Club – once a place where an international group gathered for discussions – Vladimir Putin laid out his six principles for the civilization of the Russian World. 1. &n…

10/05/2023

I do not understand why anyone thinks that a war against Iran is a good idea. Part of the thinking, if you’re Israel or Saudi Arabia, is that the war would be carried out by the United States, whic…

09/29/2023

A quick update on possible preparations for nuclear testing and suspicions of preparations for nuclear testing. Previous post here. Jeffrey Lewis and the folks at CNS supplied CNN with interpretati…

09/25/2023

A group of experts has called on the Biden administration to withhold uranium enrichment technology from any deal with Saudi Arabia.

09/21/2023

The NNSA is building an enormous underground capability for subcritical nuclear tests.

09/07/2023

How much of the nuclear strategy developed in the 1950s is still relevant?

08/31/2023

Those supposedly extraterrestrial spherules have a signature of very earthly devices – nuclear weapons.

08/29/2023

With the explosion of a Soviet nuclear device on August 29, 1949, came the need for nuclear war strategies.

08/23/2023

During the period directly after World War II, a great many things we consider as given were in fact fluid and changing.

08/18/2023

Although President Harry S Truman did not play a large role in the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, he later took actions to reserve authorization of nuclear use to the President.

08/14/2023

The film “Oppenheimer” reveals a split between specialists and the general public.

08/07/2023

The government is funding carbon capture technologies to speed up their development.

08/02/2023

Most of the reaction to the film so far represents particular viewpoints rather than a broad commentary on nuclear weapons.

07/30/2023

This is not the usual Oppenheimer biopic. The hearings frame the story.

07/19/2023

Edward Teller and Seth Neddermeyer had unconventional ideas in the Manhattan Project. One could have tanked the project, and the other saved it.

07/09/2023

The worst case is usually also the least probable.

07/07/2023

The US’s chemical weapons have all been destroyed.

07/07/2023

Danger seems to be receding. The probability of various events depends on details like the status of the reactor fuel and the competence of the Russians.

07/06/2023

No desktop, must sign in through Instagram, not available in Europe. Nope.

07/04/2023

A Chernobyl-type accident is not possible at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

07/02/2023

Twitter is crashing in multiple ways.

06/23/2023

Negotiations are now in progress for an agreement with Iran to limit its nuclear program. An overview.

06/21/2023

A mill to produce rare earths at the Mountain Pass mine in California is planned to start up soon, with a process that minimizes waste.

06/19/2023

Alex Wellerstein plans a series on Daniel Ellsberg’s “The Doomsday Machine” on his blog.

06/17/2023

Starting to figure out what the 31 documents are that Trump is charged with taking.

06/12/2023

Bluesky is rapidly becoming boring.

06/03/2023

About an article with nice photos and little investigation into the subject.

06/02/2023

Another day, another overhyped AI story.

05/30/2023

There is no moral responsibility in the statement issued on AI dangers.

05/26/2023

It’s past time for software developers to consider engineered safety.

05/21/2023

Bluesky’s plans are opaque. So far, the site is mostly populated by developers, which limits the ability to discuss topics like national security.

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