Rick Spencer
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DMV. Interested in Russian nuclear doctrine, strategic culture, employment serving higher ed and/or international relations, national security, etc.
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Rubio just fired every expert at State working on multilateral nuclear arms control. Do you feel safer?
July 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Rubio just fired every expert at State working on multilateral nuclear arms control. Do you feel safer?
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Today in 1953 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union conducted its first test of a boosted-fission device (a precursor to a true multistage thermonuclear weapon), using the Sloika or “layer cake” design (layering fission and fusion fuel). The yield was 400 kilotons.
August 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today in 1953 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union conducted its first test of a boosted-fission device (a precursor to a true multistage thermonuclear weapon), using the Sloika or “layer cake” design (layering fission and fusion fuel). The yield was 400 kilotons.
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“I’m 34 years in this business. I’ve never seen an early estimate that was too high. It’s the nature of the business,” Gen. Chance Saltzman, the chief of space operations for US Space Force, said last week when asked about the CBO’s cost estimate edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield could cost hundreds of billions | CNN Politics
The Pentagon has submitted small, medium and large options to the White House for developing ‘Golden Dome,’ President Donald Trump’s vision for a cutting-edge missile shield that can protect the US fr...
edition.cnn.com
May 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“I’m 34 years in this business. I’ve never seen an early estimate that was too high. It’s the nature of the business,” Gen. Chance Saltzman, the chief of space operations for US Space Force, said last week when asked about the CBO’s cost estimate edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/p...
"Pink Floyd's Roger Waters attends UN Security Council meeting" was not on my bingo card.
February 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Pink Floyd's Roger Waters attends UN Security Council meeting" was not on my bingo card.
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This is bad bad bad bad bad. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
February 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is bad bad bad bad bad. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
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A new analysis from the Tax Policy Center estimates that imposing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico would reduce after-tax incomes by nearly 1% in 2026, costing the average household the equivalent of $930 in lost income.
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/25-pe...
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/25-pe...
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A new analysis from the Tax Policy Center estimates that imposing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico would reduce after-tax incomes by nearly 1% in 2026, costing the average household the equivalent of $930 in lost income.
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/25-pe...
taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/25-pe...
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FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge
Seasoned members of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency are bracing for a mass expulsion as the president roots out anyone he sees as disloyal to him.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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This is interesting as well.
Do we know what the inventory is? ~300?
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breakingdefense.com/2025/01/us-c...
Do we know what the inventory is? ~300?
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breakingdefense.com/2025/01/us-c...
US completes $9B B61-12 nuclear warhead upgrade
Technically, the B61-12 is not a “new” nuclear weapon that increases the stockpile, as the US is taking the warheads from the older bombs and placing them in new housings.
breakingdefense.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is interesting as well.
Do we know what the inventory is? ~300?
@nukestrat.bsky.social
breakingdefense.com/2025/01/us-c...
Do we know what the inventory is? ~300?
@nukestrat.bsky.social
breakingdefense.com/2025/01/us-c...
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US Missile Defense Agency and partners successfully launch the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a glide vehicle designed to provide a common platform for hypersonic experiments, on Jan. 13 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
www.mda.mil/news/25news0...
www.mda.mil/news/25news0...
January 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
US Missile Defense Agency and partners successfully launch the Hypersonic Test Bed (HTB), a glide vehicle designed to provide a common platform for hypersonic experiments, on Jan. 13 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
www.mda.mil/news/25news0...
www.mda.mil/news/25news0...