So The Board thought of something for Holocaust Remembrance Day almost a day late. Like many bass players my age, Geddy Lee of Rush was a huge influence on my decision to take up bass guitar. But what I didn’t know until just not that long ago was that Geddy’s parents were Holocaust survivors. In […]
Read more "A Belated Holocaust Remembrance Day Post"These are conditions that regulatory agencies never envision. It’s simply presumed that the average person wouldn’t have the technology or materials to experiment in these areas. State and local governments in the US employ specialists and maintain the equipment to safely handle minor cases of the release of radioactive materials. But sometimes these specialists, such […]
Read more "Backyard Atomic Science"In last week’s Nuclear Friday I said that the 1982 MX Dense Pack basing plan likely came from a 1980 report that included some very implausible basing options. This report seemed to be making the case that the Racetrack plan favored by President Carter and the Air Force was somehow inevitable. I have since found […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: Atomic Dirigibles?"I was at the hardware store this morning picking up some new extension cords for work after I was the second person who almost Darwin Awarded himself using one of our defective ones. I noticed a sign on the door that April 22-24 is an official Emergency Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday. I’m not sure why […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: Disaster Tax Holiday"In just a few days the world might be as close to seeing the intentional use of nuclear weapons as it was in 1962. Of course, the stakes are not nearly so high now as they were during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Rest easy, readers of The Board, a global scale exchange is simply not […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: Korea!"I wasn’t the church-going kind of kid, but the devil-fightin’ preachers of the late seventies and early eighties still managed to reach me. They had a powerful tool, the cassette tape, and earnest young teen followers fighting to win the world for some strange kind of Christ. End Times prophecy and Satanic conspiracies were everywhere. As someone […]
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This is not an actual North Korean propaganda poster, though it is based on a real one. The story behind the slogan can be found here.
Yesterday’s missile test has not yet been mentioned on our new Emperor’s Twitter feed. He had more pressing issues to comment on, such as Ivanka’s clothing line.
Read more "Propaganda Cat"Last week The Board took a look at Trump’s Christmastime Tweet that the United States should strengthen and expand its nuclear forces. As I pointed out that since Trump has never issued any official position papers on nuclear policy there is simply no way to understand what he means by this. And in a telephone […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: Toys for Trump"Donald Trump gave The Board an early Christmas present last week on his Twitter feed. Like most people, I don’t really think early morning tweets are the best format for communicating nuclear policy. The limitations of Twitter might not have mattered much if the Trump campaign had presented any official position of nuclear weapons policy. Instead […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: The Mission"The mid 1950’s to early sixties were the glory days of American nuclear experimentation. Almost any application of nuclear weapons that could be thought of would be investigated. And not just with a mere concept review. No, the nuclear labs and their affiliates in universities and industry received the funds and personnel to realize their creative […]
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