"Dead man" systems are proven stupid - see Herman Kahn, "On Thermonuclear War", 1960 The Russian stories about having one sound exactly like their other bullshitting about weapons. (View Post)

OT It’s perfectly possible to build a two/three stage missile that will take a nuclear warhead to Moscow, or pretty much anywhere. And to do so for reasonable cost. The South Korean Hyunmoo-5, which … (View Post)

At low speeds, an advanced nuclear sub generates too little signal against background to be detectable by sonar, or heat, even a few hundred yards away. You need some kind of signal to track somethin… (View Post)

We actually have multiple tons of HEU in storage. And quite bit of plutonium. From the early designs in the 1950s. Uranium and plutonium last forever, basically. We’d only need to make more is we vas… (View Post)

Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser https://amzn.eu/d/05usIo7r Is a very good read on female leadership and the patterns of male opposition to it. You see certain tropes again and again. (View Post)