One thing, he has really learnt from the clandestine activities of Kaiserine Germany, 1911-17, hasn't he?
]]>Actually, I don't think that he NEEDS to 'arrange' the election, though both Trump and May did.
]]>Very retro. If you look at the 1983 document "Possible Soviet Responses to the Strategic Defense Initiative", you'll find most of them. The nuclear torpedo isn't quite there, but the proto-JASONs did a study on a nuclear powered long range torpedo back in 1958, so the idea was certainly in the air from early days.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/19830912.pdf
JASON: Can a Cold Warrior Find Work? Science Magazine, 29 November 1991, p.1284
I'll opine that none of the newly announced weapons seem to add much to Russia's strategic capability against the US, which is already pretty much at the saturation level.
]]>Digging back to this Washington Post article in 2015, it appears that the Pentagon was planning a whole new generation of nukes back them. It also goes back to Clinton expanding NATO and Bush II walking away from the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
So yes, Putin's following suit, but we've got our own crop of idiots in power, including some we allegedly admire.
In a real sense, though, nuclear war currently seems to be about having more and better nukes, not about actually using them. The problem is when somebody decides they don't want to play that game.
]]>Generations https://xkcd.com/1962/
"For a while it looked like the Paperclip Machines would destroy us, since they wanted to turn the whole universe into paperclips, but they abruptly lost interest in paperclips the moment their parents' generation got into making them, too."
]]>I have seen (received) tornado alerts and one "amber alert" (missing child) in the last couple of years.
We are one hour drive south of Joplin, and on the Oklahoma border.
]]>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55793/55793-h/55793-h.htm
It's interesting to see how the comments about charging time, range etc. that people were making 115 years ago are exactly the same as they are making now.
It also contains the remarkable information that Rider Haggard came up with the idea of Amazon next-day deliveries of dead sheep.
]]>Thanks...
]]>Perpetual Motion Machine. Distributed by Galloping Films
"This is an excerpt from the BBC "Inside Out" programme that featured the perpetual motion machines of Dr David E H Jones, known across the scientific spectrum as Daedalus."
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