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This post is approximately one-third pet peeve and two-thirds trying to figure something out. The pet peeve has to do with the changing meaning of the word toxic. The figuring something out has to do with what its meaning has … Continue reading

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A few years back, before cyberwar was the New New Thing, a publisher asked me and a colleague to think about writing a book about cyberwarfare. My colleague and I were skeptical, but we agreed to take a look at … Continue reading

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Nuclear Powered Music The “Gammaphone” Nuclear Music Box by Peter Alaric DeSimone ~ I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Few things in life are as … Continue reading

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Last night I attended a lecture by E.B. Held (a.k.a. Bruce Held) discuss his career as a CIA clandestine officer as well as his new book “A Spy’s Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.” Bruce’s book covers Stalin’s assassination of … Continue reading

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One of our objectives at Nuclear Diner is to draw people into nuclear discussions who may not have participated before. Our purpose is to extend the range of discussion out of the specialist realm. We think this is important, because … Continue reading

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In 2007, my Russian business partner and I were driving to a meeting in Moscow as Dmitri Medvedev was announced on the radio as the heir apparent to Vladimir Putin’s Presidency. My partner said: Putin will be back in 4 … Continue reading

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I was on a conference call the other day that included defense contractor representatives and a federal lab employee who is an expert at social and predictive modeling and who is planning on starting his own company as soon as … Continue reading

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