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Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history.
How many deaths could result from a tactical nuke? There is a wide range. Over 70,000 people are estimated to have died immediately when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima. Thousands of others later died due to poisoning from the radiation. Tactical nuclear weapons, by design, do not have as much...
We worry about the miniaturization of North Korean nukes; what threatens the Kim regime is the miniaturization of information technology. In the famine years, North Koreans learned about the lives of others by word of mouth; then they started watching smuggled video and audio tapes that were rel...
14,900 nukes: All the nations armed with atomic weapons and how many they haveSkye GouldDave Mosher
Conventional wisdom says North Korea is an arsenal-craving backwater under the rule of despots. The regime, however, is driving toward a modern version of authoritarianism, with cyberwar capabilities complementinghydrogen bombs. While the nukes purposefully grab the world’s attention, the regime is...
Many are still operating today.But thousands of these mines have long since been abandoned.So if you can locate one of these underground safe havens, you have a place to run to when disaster strikes, right?Not so fast…There are flaws in this plan.First, if a mine is operational, it ...
Never, under any circumstance, use “To Whom It May Concern”. This salutation denotes a total lack of effort, and it puts many recruiters off. STEP 3 Share your interest in the job in the intro paragraph. Begin your cover letter with a strongfirst paragraphthat expresses your desire for ...
In the final analysis, while nukes might have been able to, in the logic of war, save lives in a previous era, it would be very hard to make the case that they have been able to do so for the last 50 years or more because they’ve gotten so powerful and so plentiful. One or ...
First, a little housekeeping, then onto the subject of Japanese nukes. In the comments section of my previous post on the Sankei article, I posted the full text in Japanese. Two readers have offered translations, which I think is a model use of the comment section. In that spirit, I am...