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Riding off into the twilight… | Nuclear Dreams
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It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Riding off into the twilight…. In “The Twilight of the Bombs”. Posted by nucleardreams on August 30, 2010 at 12:16 pm. Previous Entry: Shattering the nuclear sword. Next Entry: Louisa Gilder and Robert Oppenheimer. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Where’s Edward Teller when you need him? | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/whens-edward-teller-when-you-need-him
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Where’s Edward Teller when you need him? This just caught my eye. I had thought of exactly the same thing a couple of days back:. The chatter began weeks ago as armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico: What about nuking the well? Or as the CNN reporter John Roberts suggested last week, Drill a hole, drop a nuke in and seal up the well. Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department, said that neither Ene...
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Particle or nuclear? | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/particle-or-nuclear
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. This is interesting. A Tehran University physics professor has been killed by a bomb planted outside his home. There is speculation whether this could be the work of outsiders, especially from Israel or the US. The trouble is that until now the specialty and role of the assassinated professor is not known. As the NYT reports. There was some dispute about his field of scientific specialization. The broadcaster called the professor a? Staunch supporter of the Islamic Revolution?
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Perspective…again | Nuclear Dreams
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It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. No one advocated halting the manufacture of methyl isocyanate or shutting down the chemical industry after the Bhopal tragedy. I cannot add much to what’s being already said and I join millions in wishing the unfortunate citizens of Japan the very best. But even a serious accident like the one currently unfolding at the Japanese nuclear plant should not blind us to the bigger picture. Predictably, there have already been. Already people are comparing the current crisis to Che...
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Book reviews: A hawk, a dove and the missile man of America | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/book-reviews-a-hawk-a-dove-and-the-missile-man-of-america
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Book reviews: A hawk, a dove and the missile man of America. Two books on the Cold War. 1 The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War – Nicholas Thompson. 8220;Us vs Them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security”. 2 A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon- Neil Sheehan. Posted by nucleardreams on January 23, 2010 at 4:38 pm. Filed under Cold War. Next Entry: A sane Republican.
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A sane Republican | Nuclear Dreams
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It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. 8211; Senator Lindsey Graham. Posted by nucleardreams on February 28, 2010 at 11:50 pm. Previous Entry: Book reviews: A hawk, a dove and the missile man of America. Next Entry: A promising book falls apart. Posted on March 5, 2010 at 11:36 pm. Posted on March 6, 2010 at 12:53 am. I would feel better about the belief system of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming if the scientists and publishers at the heart of the movement felt no need to hide their data, intimidate pers...
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Obama should be much more like George H W Bush | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/obama-should-be-much-more-like-george-h-w-bush
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Obama should be much more like George H W Bush. Yes, the comparison would probably make him cringe, but Freeman Dyson makes an interesting and accurate observation in an interview. As Dyson notes, for all the enthusiasm on the left, Obama is actually doing much less than both Reagan and Bush and needs to do much more to reduce nukes. Maybe, as Dyson wryly says, one needs to be a right wing Republican to get rid of nuclear weapons. Previous Entry: A promising book falls apart.
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A promising book falls apart | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/a-promising-book-falls-apart
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. A promising book falls apart. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were such horrific and singular historical events that any new retelling of them deserves to be read seriously. It was with such thoughts that I picked up Charles Pellegrino’s “The Last Train From Hiroshima”. Alas, the riveting start of the book and the author’s accounts have now virtually fallen apart. In two New York Times articles. Posted by nucleardreams on March 16, 2010 at 2:44 am. Louisa Gilder...
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Shattering the nuclear sword | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/shattering-the-nuclear-sword
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Shattering the nuclear sword. 8220;Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. - John F. Kennedy, speech to the UN, September 1961. 8220;Countdown to Zero”. So what can be done to address this life-threatening problem? And Reagan would say, “Mikhail? Enter your comment here.
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Louisa Gilder and Robert Oppenheimer | Nuclear Dreams
https://nucleardreams.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/louisa-gilder-and-robert-oppenheimer
It’s NU-clear, not UN-clear. Louisa Gilder and Robert Oppenheimer. Gilder’s research seems quite exhaustive and well-referenced, which was why the following observation jumped out of the pages and bothered me even more. No evidence for these fantastic allegations has ever turned up. In spite of this, Gilder refers to the book and essentially quotes a Soviet handler named Merkulov who says that a KGB agent in California named Grigory Kheifets thought that Oppenheimer was willing to transmit secret inf...
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