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05/31/2026

The US government has 34 tons of plutonium it wants to dispose of. By 1990, the US and Russia held something like 65,000 nuclear weapons. The dissolution of the Soviet Union led to significant decr…

05/13/2026

Marty Pfeiffer (.bsky.social on Bluesky) is a gadfly to DOE and NNSA, mainly through their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs. He has been complaining that NNSA has not publis…

04/19/2026

It’s probably a good idea to read my earlier post on why nations don’t want nuclear weapons before reading this one. The various factors in a decision to build a nuclear arsenal weigh differently f…

04/14/2026

As larger nations that have nuclear weapons attack smaller nations that don’t have nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom is that more nations will want nuclear weapons. This is less certain than muc…

03/06/2026

There are folks out there dreaming about a daring raid by special ops forces to grab Iran’s stock of enriched uranium. Trumpies would like to grab the Ayatollahs’ goodies. People concerned about pr…

03/02/2026

It’s time to say it again: It’s highly doubtful that the Iranians were pursuing a nuclear weapon. And they certainly don’t have any. Donald Trump insists that (one of the purposes/ the purpose) of …

01/30/2026

Next week, on February 5, the last of the historic nuclear arms control agreement lapses. The New START Treaty preserved the regime for a few more years, but the thinking that drove the Soviet Unio…

12/14/2025

In the world that talks about nuclear weapons, a device is a nuclear explosive without a delivery vehicle. This is fairly generally known, by physicists and political scientists, along with many of…

08/14/2025

To use the word “negotiations” about tomorrow’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, if we consider its historical use for other actions between representatives of their nations, is a c…

07/08/2025

My colleague at Balloon Juice, Tom Levenson, has written another book. Tom is a popular-science writer and has written a number of books on various aspects of science – climate, Newton, Einstein ar…

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