Pakistan’s Nukes: How Much is Enough?Time Has Come to Question Why the Country Needs Tactical Nuclear Forces
From a practical standpoint, the advantage of a small nuclear bomb is that it can pack so much explosive force into such a small space. (See How Nuclear Bombs Work for details.) The B61-11 can carry a nuclear charge with anywhere between a 1-kiloton (1,000 tons of TNT) and a 300...
The Obama nuclear summit is focusing less on nuclear weapons and more on more poorly guarded nuclear materials that could be used to build nukes.Grier, PeterPeter Grier, "Nuclear Summit: How Much `Loose Nukes' Material Is OutThere?", Christian Science Monitor,Vol. 13, April 2010....
Observers are divided on whether Pyongyang is making nukes to trade for food and fuel, or, as it says, to deter the US and its allies from invading. Either way, the North's production capability could accelerate if a freeze isn't negotiated (see chart at left). Does North Korea have ...
Tactical nuclear weapons, by design, do not have as much radioactive fallout, since they are used against a specific target, but there is still some fallout. Nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein has built a simulation calledNukeMapto estimate the effects of nuclear strikes. According to NukeMap, ...
dictatorship, its legitimacy depends on myths—about the Korean War, the infallibility of its leaders, and how much better it is to live in North than in South Korea—that are shattered once people know the truth. The more total the lie, the more total rejection of the liar when it is ...
How Much You Should Worry About Tech, From AI to Hacked NukesmagazineSelfDriving Cars
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...
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 ...
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