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theculturedmarxist · 6 months

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The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, which Moscow said would put it on par with the United States.

Wednesday's test used chemicals and radioisotopes to "validate new predictive explosion models" that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy.

"These experiments advance our efforts to develop new technology in support of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation goals," Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, said in a statement. "They will help reduce global nuclear threats by improving the detection of underground nuclear explosive tests.

The test is notable because of its timing. Russian lawmakers announced their intention to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

A bill will go to the Russian upper house, the Federation Council, which will consider it next week. Federation Council lawmakers have already said they will support the bill.

The treaty, adopted in 1996, bans all nuclear explosions anywhere in the world, although it has never fully entered into force. In addition to the U.S., it is yet to be ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt.

American officials have said more transparency is needed because while the U.S. and Russia don’t test warheads, they do conduct so-called sub-critical experiments — explosions that verify weapon designs without the amount of atomic material needed to sustain a chain reaction, the Bloomberg report said.

There are widespread concerns that Russia could resume nuclear tests to try to discourage the West its continued support of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that while some experts have talked about the need to conduct nuclear tests, he hasn’t yet formed an opinion on the issue.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said last week that Moscow will continue to respect the ban and will only resume nuclear tests if Washington does so first.

#nuclear weapons #nuclear test ban treaty #nuclear war

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kp777 · 8 months

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#G20 #g20india #global nuclear ban treaty #nuclear weapons

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the-heaminator · 1 year

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hbggg wanna write America and Australia asking old ppl (Scotland and prussia, china maybe) about the first high explosives which ends in them making fulminating gold and silver in scotlands garage, they get out the aqua reigis it's a fucking blast (ba dum tss).

But I don't have the chemistry knowledge

#Rather I do have the chemistry knowledge I just dont know how to convey it without sounding like a paper #pls send help I hate having science brainrot #The heam speaks #For context culminating silver is incredibly reactive. If you touch it with a lighted splint even if its wet it'll just fukin detonate on #Jack would love watching Gilbert and Alisdair argue about how to make fulminating silver and Alfred would be taking notes bc he wants #Imagine your uncle and some other crusty dude yelling at each other about how not to handle high explosives. Then it detonated #Everyone knows mercury fulminate they probably wouldn't go through that #WAIT THOSE 4 WOULD HAVE A SCIENCE CHANNEL #Alfred would go on 2 hour long explanations about astrophysics #And with Gilbert and alisdair they could easily talk for hours on shitty video quality about machines and their mechanisms and their histor #Gilbert and alisdair would have a whole series “What not to do with chemistry” basically making a lot of explosives #And things of questionable legal standing. Like carbon tetra chloride because we know alisdair doesn't throw shit out and probably has some #Organo-phosphates and other highly dangerous chemicals and compounds banned in the 60s to 90s in his shed #Alfred just casually talks about nuclear reactions.#Jack and guest appearances of zee would be examining animal and human biology in a sory of crack head way that people love.#He has a pretty large base of people who watch his videos. Short and quick forward but genuinely educational #While people like me are going to watch Alfred go on for hours about isotopes and allo tropes and isomers fission fusion the whole lot.#Alisdair and Gilbert's velideos constantly toe the line of legality. There is a lot if swearing and questionable health and safety

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newluddite · 2 years

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Math is a Bitch

I read one of those rabbit hole articles about the world going electric. It is really messy. So I do a bit of checking. Yup messy to the edge of impossible.

In University I did really well in Thermodynamics. All the engineers had to take it and it was pretty rough for many as the concepts are rather abstract. If you get stuck in a conversation with an engineer or scientist just bring up entropy and see what happens. Energy is a number. I can work with numbers.

The inspiration for this is in California they just mandated that no new fossil fuel vehicles may be sold after 2035. Well they will allow hybrids if they are up to 20% of sales. The polar bears are cheering.

Canada has enacted similar goals.

And there is a But. The math don't work.

Boiling down to the basics there is not enough power. Not enough electricity to charge those cars. Hybrids burn fuel and and charge themselves, so they still need dino juice. (Hey I know oil is not dinosaurs but gotta have a bit of fun)

US Statistics are easy to find so lets look at those.

The US electrical grid and all sources of those Watt Hours produced 4.223 TWhours of power. (that is 4223 Billion kWhrs) About 40% is from Natural Gas and 22% from coal, and 19% from Nuclear, and the rest is renewables which includes Hydroelectric but is mostly wind and solar. The "grid" is groaning under the stress and working up slowly to rid itself of coal. Wind and Solar are coming. Can't dam anymore rivers for Hydro though. You may have noticed that some rivers with dams are drying up.

In California the next item after the 2035 announcement was a request to limit electricity use to prevent brown and blackouts. One suggestion was to NOT charge those Teslas. They already don't have enough electricity.

So how much energy do IC cars use? That number is big. A gallon of gasoline has about 32.9 kWhrs of energy in it. In 2020 the US consumed 128 Billion gallons of gas. That is 4218 Billion kWhrs of energy equivalent. Add diesel at 1244 Billion kWhrs for a total of 5462 Billion kWhrs of motor vehicle energy consumed.

Now IC engines are only about 25% efficient. So of that 5462 only 1365 Billion kWhrs is needed. But electric cars are only about 90% efficient so they would need 1517 Billion kWhrs to replace everything on the road.

That would bring up the total need for electricity to 5588 billion kWhrs a 32% increase in total grid capacity while shutting down 22% of power from coal and 40% from natural gas which is a fossil fuel too. That means the other sources of power have to increase by 348% to keep up. The only source that can ramp up that fast is nuclear, sorry. That's because we know how to build them already. There are only 13 years and it takes longer than that to bring anything that big on line.

Is it going to happen?

Will people in California ask for utilities to build nuclear plants near them? I'm going to guess no. Will they pave the desert with solar cells made with really toxic chemicals? (yup arsenic and heavy metals) Nope again.

Oh and here is a painful fact about EVs. You have to drive them about 100,000 miles to break even on the greenhouse gas produced in building them. In every one on the market now the batteries will not last that long. They may never break even.

This is not a one-more-breakthrough type of issue. Like I said the edge of impossible. If there is a social revolution and nuclear power is once again a good thing and society walks more and drives far less there is a thin sliver of a chance.

I ride bikes.

One thing would be to outlaw Crypto currency mining. I mean 150 TWhrs just for FN Bitcoin. That would help a bit. (pun intended)

I am not optimistic. Con men and charlatans will make money but in about 10 years deadlines will be extended before they are just abandoned. Almost all the politicians making these policies will be retired or dead. All problems are for the next generation.

I live in British Columbia a place where there is a chance of hitting those goals locally. All our power is from Hydroelectric dams. We have some big ones. We also have one tenth the population of California.

But global warming is the opposite of local.

And China puts out more greenhouse gas and burns more coal than everyone else and they simply do not care.

#electric cars #climate change #global warming #coal power #2035 car ban in California #not enough electricity #nuclear power #renewable energy

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dragonkingz159 · 1 year

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Yeah yeah! You’ll all get your rant. I just want to research some things first…and also maybe talk to some people. But you’ll get your rant about dictators and the destruction of self and how it pertains to lots of things here in the next few weeks.

Check the tags. I ramble there for some stupid reason.

But the long and short of it is. I’m dying at work so expect the full rant and ramble in like March. Also if you knows things. DM me.

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon theory #holy hell did that last post get a ton of notes #I didn’t even realize how many people wanted to see me ranting and razing like a lunatic #what the hell #it’s mostly going to be speculating on octoling society and comparing the thematics of color and coral to the inkling lifestyle #and possibly the invasion or take over of traditionally afirican American mediums by “white artists. like I said I want to talk to others #also me digging through old nuclear testing results/photos #and asking good ol nuclear grandpa the affects it has on oceanic ecosystems #and if bleached coral came about some of those tests or if it’s more due to climate change and all the trash #lots of stuff #so if you know anything about that hit me up in the DM’s and I’ll get back to you when I’m not dying of stress #so like…a week or two #rambling in the tags #also potentially how the mainstream culture flushes out dangerous/creative/colorful work until it is more palatable to maintaining order #and not causing ripples. so like why most of the really angry songs don’t turn up on the radio unless they are really REALLY good #or can be mistaken for other messages. ie why 100+ songs were banned after 9/11 type stuff which is not what I want to talk about #but I might be. WHO KNOWS ITS MY RANT #I’d Rather Talk Fun Stuff like NUCULAR WARNING SITES #AND OCTOLING CULTURE AND HOW SANTAZATION AND BLEACH SHARE A SIMIALR DEFINITION #AND JUST OCTOLINGS AND MEMORIES #it’s going to be a good time.#we have fun here

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lesbianalicent · 1 year

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idk why i'm so surprised tumblr is gonna outlive twitter like this website is the cockroach of social media

#it survived nuclear fallout (porn ban)#katie.txt

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years

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Our path to victory! :: September 26, 2022

Robert B. Hubbell

Last Friday, Arizona Republicans managed to resurrect a Civil War-era law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion. They did so through a combination of legislative action and judicial intervention. As a result, anyone who performs an abortion in Arizona at any stage of pregnancy can be sentenced to two to five years in prison despite the fact that the Arizona legislature recently enacted a law permitting abortions for up to fifteen weeks. The century-old law does contain an exception for a doctor who acts to save the life of a woman; not so with the recently passed 15-week ban. The net effect of the laws is that not even doctors can perform an abortion to save the life of the mother.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the potential consequences of the ruling are “catastrophic, dangerous, and unacceptable.” Jeane-Pierre also said that the judicial ruling resurrecting the statute set women in Arizona back “more than a century”—a statement that invokes no exaggeration. The law imposing a total abortion ban was enacted by a territorial legislature in 1864—five decades before Arizona was admitted to the Union.

But before looking at the procedural machinations that resulted in Arizona enforcing a law that pre-dates its existence as a state, let’s look at the political ramifications. Those ramifications may help Democrats retain the Senate and pass national legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade. But let’s get to the point: As one reader noted in the Comments section over the weekend,

A 157-year-old law from before the state was a state, when women were not allowed to vote, is now the controlling law on women’s right to choose. If this doesn't bring voters out in mass numbers in 45 days, nothing will.

At a time when Republicans are pretending the Dobbs decision did not eliminate reproductive liberty from the Constitution, the ruling of the Arizona judge allowing enforcement of a 157-year-old ban on abortion was unwelcome news for the GOP. Indeed, Republicans running for high-profile offices in Arizona have said nothing about the ruling, a ruling secured by Arizona’s current GOP Attorney General. As noted by NBC

Republican candidates were silent a day after the ruling, which said the state can prosecute doctors and others who assist with abortion unless it is necessary to save the mother’s life. Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for governor, and Blake Masters, the Senate candidate, did not comment.

The silence by Blake Masters is telling. He is the hand-picked candidate of billionaire Peter Thiel and ran on an anti-choice platform to secure the GOP nomination for US Senate. After Masters secured the nomination, he removed references from his website proclaiming that he is “100% pro-life” and touting his support for a “fetal personhood” amendment to the Constitution. Masters apparently believes that Arizonans have no memory and are incapable of performing a search of the internet’s unforgiving archives. Masters was already in trouble before the ruling on Friday, which will only add to his defensive campaign posture. Per The Hill,

Masters, the Peter Thiel protégé-turned-politician, found himself on the wrong side of the multiple developments last week, headlined by the cancellation of $9.6 million worth of ads by the Senate Leadership Fund—a group backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. In addition, a new poll on Thursday commissioned by AARP showed [Democrat Senator] Kelly leading by 8 percentage points.

So, in full recognition of the hardships imposed by the denial of reproductive liberty for the women in Arizona, we should also recognize that the continued efforts by extremist Republicans to impose their extremist religious views on everyone in America will backfire. The question is not “whether” but “when” the issue of reproductive liberty will permanently end the GOP’s effort to convert America into a Christian nationalist theocracy.

The Arizona ruling seemed to be a bolt out of the blue, so readers asked me to discuss the historical and procedural background of the ruling. Let’s take a quick look.

The history of the Arizona statute banning abortion. Professor Heather Cox Richardson has covered this topic in depth in her September 24, 2022 post on Letters from an American. You will not find a better historical summary, so I highly recommend that you read Professor Richardson’s post. (And while you are at her Substack website, subscribe to her newsletter if you are not already a subscriber.)

Given the in-depth coverage by Professor Richardson, I will briefly note that the Arizona Territorial Legislature met in 1864 and adopted a “code” of laws for the territory that was written by a single person—an appellate judge in the territory. That code of laws sought to impose law and order on a lawless territory.

As Professor Richardson notes, the original territorial code prohibited actions intended to “procur[e] miscarriage”, which (in context) seemed designed to protect women from male violence, but was later reinterpreted as a ban an abortion:

The law that is currently interpreted to outlaw abortion care seemed designed to keep men in the chaos of the Civil War from inflicting damage on others—including pregnant women—rather than to police women’s reproductive care . . . .

It thus seems doubtful that the Arizona legislature intended to regulate reproductive liberty but instead intended to prevent violence against women in a lawless territory. The prohibition against poisoning was subsequently interpreted as a complete ban on abortion.

Subsequent legal history. Statutes adopted by the Arizona Territory remained in effect when Arizona became a state. The original “territorial code” was later updated and re-issued in its entirety in 1956. The statute criminalizing poisoning “with intent to procure a miscarriage” was re-codified as Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13. Criminal Code § 13-3603. Section 13-3603 remained in effect until the decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, at which time enforcement of the statute was enjoined or “stayed by injunction.”

The Arizona legislature again updated its code in 1977, but left Section 13-3603 “on the books,” despite the injunction based on the ruling in Roe.

After the ruling in Dobbs, the Arizona legislature passed a 15-week abortion ban with no exception for rape, incest, or medical emergency. In passing the 15-week ban, the Arizona legislature specifically provided that it is was not repealing Section 13-3603.

The Arizona Attorney General, a Republican, then sued to lift the injunction against enforcement of Section 13-3603. Arizona Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson granted the Attorney General’s request to lift the stay given the reversal of Roe. Her ruling had the effect of resurrecting the enforceability of Section 13-3603—a result that the Arizona legislature specifically contemplated when it expressly left Section 13-603 on the books when it passed the 15-week abortion ban.

What happens next? It pains me to say that the Arizona Supreme Court is likely to uphold Judge Kellie Johnson’s ruling. This outcome is the result of the Arizona legislature hoped to achieve by leaving Section 13-3603 on the books after the decision in Roe and when it passed a fifteen-week ban. The most efficient and effective remedy is for Arizona Democrats to take control of the legislature and repeal both Section 13-603 and the just-passed 15-week abortion ban. (Republicans currently hold a 2-seat majority in the state Senate and a 3-seat majority in the state House of Representatives.) And then Arizonans should amend the state constitution to protect reproductive liberty to remove all doubt.

GOP 2022 midterm platform.

Kevin McCarthy released the GOP “Commitment to America”, which sets forth the legislative agenda if Republicans take control of the House in 2022. The “commitments” are so vague they are a joke. Republicans are against inflation, for energy independence, against crime, for healthcare, and in favor of constitutional liberties. Who isn’t? But the “devil is in the details”, which are nowhere mentioned in the plan. Of course, the “commitment’ fails to mention the GOP plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, sunset Medicare, ignore the climate crisis, and abolish reproductive liberty.

It also fails to mention that the House GOP caucus intends to open investigations into Democrats who have investigated the assault on the Capitol and Congress on January 6th. Indeed, it is possible (likely) that House Republicans will impeach Joe Biden just for kicks. See The Hill, Mace says there is ‘pressure on the Republicans’ to impeach Biden if they win House.

In other words, we should expect that Republicans will do nothing to advance the interests of the American people if they regain control of the House—just as they failed to do anything when they controlled both chambers of Congress and the presidency in 2017-2018. The GOP’s “revenge agenda” increases the urgency of completing the criminal investigations into Trump relating to January 6th and charging him (if appropriate) ASAP!

January 6th Committee Hearing update.

The January 6th Committee has done a great job of preventing leaks from members. That is about to change because a former Republican staff member is publishing a book on Monday, September 27, 2002. The staffer, Denver Riggleman, revealed that “the White House switchboard connected a call to a Capitol rioter's phone on January 6, 2021.” See CBS News, Riggleman: Meadows' text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup”

If Trump was in communication with rioters during the assault on the Capitol, the January 6th Committee must disclose that fact to the American people. It is possible that the call from the White House switchboard may not have connected, but the identity of the intended recipient of the call may still be important. Did the White House (or Trump) call the head of the Oath Keepers? Proud Boys? Facts like those would matter in establishing Trump’s intent in his hours-long delay on January 6th.

Putin’s nuclear threats and the administration response.

Putin’s talk of nuclear retaliation if Russia is threatened is anxiety producing. But we should take heart from the fact that the US foreign policy is in the capable hands of seasoned professionals. On Sunday, Anthony Blinken disclosed that the US has been in communication with Russia to advise that country of “catastrophic” consequences if Russia uses strategic nuclear weapons. See NYTimes, U.S. Warns Russia of ‘Catastrophic Consequences’ if It Uses Nuclear Weapons.

The most reassuring fact in the NYTimes article is that despite Putin’s threats, Russia has made no changes to the readiness of its 2,000 strategic nuclear weapons. That fact suggests that Putin’s bluffs are just that—so far.

#Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #midterms #January 6th Committee #Nuclear threats #Arizona #abortion bans

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