Andrew Facini
@andrewfacini
Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own. Nuke policy starter pack!
I guess the thing getting me today is that these arguments always spin up a scary story (and yeah Iran + Pu = bad!), but seem to end up with the same kind of "permanent" fix: just don't let them do it! Someone call up the Pentagon, we finally figured it out
This was bad and sent a very specific racial signal before the feds started targeting civilians daily and neo nazis marched regularly. It's crazy that today these are the guys supposedly working for *New Jerseyans*
Live from Beijing, a world capital repeatedly implicated by the President of its hegemon rival in a major crime
Torn between undefeatable solidarity of shared suffering and endless loathing of the basic premise of human metabolism
The rapid counter is an uncomfortable reminder that Yıldırımhan development continues apace and the Δv between these two pictures is not much
Dude just celebrated by shouting never should have bought S-400 over and over
Return of my cranky opinion but SMR companies are only getting less relevant in the world of gigawatt-plus data center campuses. Just build grid level facilities which have better/smaller risk profiles and can be used at least notionally for the public good when AI pops
Grid folks: is 176 MW a lot for a "new automated perishable distribution center"? I can't seem to find more about this facility off the bat. Walmart buys wholesale electricity from Constellation in IL: interestingengineering.com/energy/walma...
What a tidy little example of basically every day for the last ~decade
Back to this convo, another example: reporting "accused people of vandalizing it" does the work of legitimizing a claim without any evidence; simultaneously there *is* evidence of a corrupt no-bid contact which directly led to the current problems and that's not reported at all. It's a choice
Updated the chart with more info. Bombing could only ever have gotten us what we're seeing now: slowing down the uranium pathway and *maybe* foreclosing the plutonium one. Both temporary for a determined state. JCPOA got us vastly more security in areas which you simply can't get with force.
Skipping by the billions seemingly promised to Iran and the pinky-swear nature of the rest of it, this is how the core elements of the nuclear program stack up with what the JCPOA got us. Nuclear program the only arguable justification for all of this destruction, and... just yikes