And yet young people (such as my eldest daughter) report that it is very hard to find even such low paid jobs. She is working in chain restaurant as a server (while studying as a uni student), the wa… (View Post)

There are three reasons to test 1) testing/retesting a particular design. One question is how even small manufacturing changes over decades years have an effect. The B61 was designed in 1963… another… (View Post)

Actually, the people maintaining the stockpile would like a regular, probably yearly, test. Long memories of the Polaris arming wire from the early days. They don’t push for it, because that’s politi… (View Post)

The US tests Trident and Minuteman missiles regularly. With a near perfect success rate. Testing nuclear weapons was eventually stopped, decade ms ago. It is possible to do small nuclear tests covert… (View Post)

What would be a stupid political mistake is not creating a separate IT rate for basic rate pensioners. So this would only hit those on over 50k Yes, we have some rich pensioners in this country. But … (View Post)