Ok, it’s time for an angry thread about this bullshit.

Let’s start with how this “administration” has in its public comments generally taken a “diplomacy is for faggots” stance and trace that back historically & cultrally, shall we?

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https://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/1039316889183444993

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since at least a decade pre-WWII (when my area of focus begins), State Department (& oft diplomacy in general) in US has oft been criticized in gendered terms:

effeminate & weak “cookie pushers in striped pants” contrasted to the violent & forceful “hard men of history”

14,000-20,000+ nuclear weapon pits stored in those bunkers at Pantex.

That is A LOT (a shit ton) of presumably very well guarded fissile material.

I’m sure the contractor responsible is focused on patriotism & security, not profits. Nuclear Weapon Dismantlement Workflow:

notice that after dismantlement the pit seems to just kind of hang around in storage forever until you end up with literally ten or twenty+ thousand of them hanging out.

Approximately 800 US nuclear warheads ready to fly 24/7/365 and Trump has virtually unrestrained launch authority.

One man can end the world as you know it on an impulse.

HT @NarangVipin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, nuking Japan was neither necessary nor sufficient to end WWII in the pacific (unless you’re from the US in which case THIS IS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH).

Allow me to suggest some readings that I have compiled FOR JUST THIS OCCASION: A Thread!

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#PhDLife

https://twitter.com/a_w_little/status/1026259737124458496

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1st up:

@WardHayesWilson's incisive foreign policy piece:
Wilson, Ward. “The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan...Stalin Did.” 2013. foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the…

I appreciate that Ward's work asks reader to consider atomic bombings in relation to a summer of city bombings/destruction.

The B52-B at nuclear museum never went to SAC- it went straight into nuclear weapons test program, hence the insignia WHICH I FINALLY GOT PICS OF.

This B52 dropped Redwing Cherokee test device, 3.8MT first airdropped US dry thermonuclear weapon design.

#PhDLife Repost but new pic and I love it.

Civil Defense sanitation bucket!

Fifty people, two weeks!

#CleansingThermonuclearPooping

On this date 1946, US detonated at Bilini Atoll, Shot Baker in Operations Crossroads.

1st underwater (90ft) nuclear detonation; had flotilla of naval ships; & involved non-consensual “relocating” of Marshallese.

I will be tweeting about Baker throughout day.

#PhDLife

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Any discussion of Crossroads nuclear tests has to start with US nuclear colonialism.

The US coerced the Marshallese to leave their homes and then we nuked them 67 times with 108 megatons.

amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar…

Oh, this is easy.

Bolton is full of shit and the “administration” has way overpromised.

DPRK isn’t going to denuclearize this year. Or next.

Unless it’s by detonating their nuclear weapons over targets when we invade. But that’s “running out of ammo” not denuclearization?

https://twitter.com/tackettdc/status/1013579825016115200

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Let’s look at news from last couple of days & then estimate probability of DPRK denuclearizing in next year.

NBC: DPRK increasing FIZMAT production.

WashPost: DPRK trying to hide extent of nuke program from US.

nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna8…

washingtonpost.com/world/national…

This is a fun one.

NUKING ASTEROIDS AND COMETS! IN SPACE!

One thing to avoid in this situation is shattering the NEO into a couple large, still destructive, and now radioactive chunks headed for the Earth.

A thread!

1/n The set up: the Earth has been, and will be, impacted by comets and asteroids and this can cause a big of a mess.

GOOD THING WE HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, EH COMRADES?

Me at the beginning of 2018 vs me 178 days into 2018:

#OhGodHowMuchMoreOfThis? Me at the beginning of 2018 vs me 179 days into 2018:

#OhGodHowMuchMoreOfThis?

The Sparklet System has a pressurized radon gas cartridge so you could have delicious, refreshing, and healthful radon water any time!

#DeusExAtomica

HT @LucyJane_Santos for the picture of the radon bulbs. The Sparklets water system had your choice of CO2 OR delicious radon gas cartridges!

ht @rrgeorge for the first image advertising the benefits of radon gas in your water.

Pic 2 is an ad for the CO2 bulbs. Pic 3 is mine at the @nuclearmuseum.

I am both astonished and not astonished at degree to which US government went all police state with regards to disarmament activism of the 1950s.

Like, the organizer of the Hiroshima Maidens trip got investigated by FBI & State tried to kill the trip as just one example. Lewis Straus, no shit, argued that the Lucky Dragon fishing boat the US doused with radioactive fallout during the Castle Bravo fuckup was...

A COMMUNIST PLOT!

Every couple of years missileers and/or the folk who guard nuclear weapons get caught using drugs (and sometimes running a violent street gang).

Let me assure you:
Some are still using drugs in the years there is no scandal.

news.vice.com/amp/en_us/arti… On a TOTALLY UNRELATED NOTE, as far as I can tell, the box of explosive grenade rounds that were lost by Minot’s ICBM guarding security forces when they “fell off the back of the truck” still haven’t been found.

washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/c…

I am 50 followers away from 10k & it is killing me.

So here’s a shareable thread of reasons to follow me:

1) I share results of my original research on nukes & our relations to them on Twitter. So you’ll see awesome new knowledge & artifacts like 1950s nuke lab advertising: 2/n

Shareable thread of reasons to follow me:

2) I conduct, and share on Twitter the results of, my Freedom of Information Act Requests, archival, and museum work.

I put into the OSINT record via twitter the first verified B61-5 nuclear weapon preflight controller for example

Jesus fucking christ, we are all going go die.

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This is just fucking unbelievable.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That’s how it goes.
Everybody knows.

1/n Everybody knows that the boat is leaking

Everybody knows that the captain lied

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like their father or dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets

Everybody wants a box of chocolates

And a long stem rose

Everybody knows.

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