Casillic
@casillic.bsky.social
Critical Infrastructure, High Consequence / High Integrity Systems, Space, Nuclear, Mathematics, Public Health, HPC
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“Energy Secretary Chris Wright, National Nuclear Security Administration leader Brandon M. Williams and officials from the US National Laboratories are planning to inform the White House that they do not think blowing up weapons for nuclear warhead testing—as Trump suggested last month—is tenable …”
Exclusive: Department of Energy officials to meet with White House to tamp down Trump’s idea of explosive nuclear testing | CNN Politics
Top energy and nuclear officials in the Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Energy Secretary Chris Wright, National Nuclear Security Administration leader Brandon M. Williams and officials from the US National Laboratories are planning to inform the White House that they do not think blowing up weapons for nuclear warhead testing—as Trump suggested last month—is tenable …”
Los Alamos National Laboratory - National Security Science
Winter 2025 The Nevada Issue
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Winter 2025 The Nevada Issue
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November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Los Alamos National Laboratory - National Security Science
Winter 2025 The Nevada Issue
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Winter 2025 The Nevada Issue
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Answers from underground Subcritical experiments below the Nevada desert ensure reliable nuclear weapons!
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November 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Answers from underground Subcritical experiments below the Nevada desert ensure reliable nuclear weapons!
www.lanl.gov/media/public...
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B61-12 flight tests yield positive results! Dual FB61-12 on F35 www.sandia.gov/labnews/2025...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
B61-12 flight tests yield positive results! Dual FB61-12 on F35 www.sandia.gov/labnews/2025...
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Today in 1974, Karen Silkwood’s white Honda Civic was apparently forced off a quiet highway in western Oklahoma where it crashed into a culvert, killing her instantly. Silkwood, 28, was employed as a technician at Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation’s plutonium fuel rod fabrication plant in Cimarron.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today in 1974, Karen Silkwood’s white Honda Civic was apparently forced off a quiet highway in western Oklahoma where it crashed into a culvert, killing her instantly. Silkwood, 28, was employed as a technician at Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation’s plutonium fuel rod fabrication plant in Cimarron.
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The new book... exists!!! Got my author copies in the mail today! Looks quite readable! Spelled my name right on the cover, even!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The new book... exists!!! Got my author copies in the mail today! Looks quite readable! Spelled my name right on the cover, even!!!
harpercollins.com/products/the-most-awful-responsibility-alex-wellerstein
harpercollins.com/products/the-most-awful-responsibility-alex-wellerstein
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Gift idea for the cat lover in your life, my hilarious Cat Operator’s Manual (with free stickers!)
Maybe your #secretsantaAoNZ recipient hints at being a feline fancier.
Available online and at Whitcoulls , Paper Plus and gift stores nationwide
cuddleUnit5.com
Maybe your #secretsantaAoNZ recipient hints at being a feline fancier.
Available online and at Whitcoulls , Paper Plus and gift stores nationwide
cuddleUnit5.com
The Cat Operator's Manual - Get the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit
A fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with technical information, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Gift idea for the cat lover in your life, my hilarious Cat Operator’s Manual (with free stickers!)
Maybe your #secretsantaAoNZ recipient hints at being a feline fancier.
Available online and at Whitcoulls , Paper Plus and gift stores nationwide
cuddleUnit5.com
Maybe your #secretsantaAoNZ recipient hints at being a feline fancier.
Available online and at Whitcoulls , Paper Plus and gift stores nationwide
cuddleUnit5.com
Watched Nuremberg today.
Thought it was pretty good.
Thought it was pretty good.
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Watched Nuremberg today.
Thought it was pretty good.
Thought it was pretty good.
Describe your cat's personality with one photo
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Describe your cat's personality with one photo
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Today in 1963, the “Twilight Zone” episode “The Old Man in the Cave” aired for the first time on CBS. Set in 1974, 10 years after a nuclear war, survivors in a remote town must choose whether to continue to follow the advice of their leader and an unseen old man or a cadre of newly-arrived soldiers.
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today in 1963, the “Twilight Zone” episode “The Old Man in the Cave” aired for the first time on CBS. Set in 1974, 10 years after a nuclear war, survivors in a remote town must choose whether to continue to follow the advice of their leader and an unseen old man or a cadre of newly-arrived soldiers.
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The US withdrawal from WHO could impact the flu shot.
Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July.
"When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."
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Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July.
"When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."
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Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The US withdrawal from WHO could impact the flu shot.
Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July.
"When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July.
"When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
OK, as promised, here's my thread about the links between tear gas/pepper spray and the arms trade and gun industry.
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Today in 1983, NATO began ABLE ARCHER 83, a European-wide nuclear weapons release exercise that paranoid Soviet leaders feared was a cover story for a nuclear first strike and “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger.” nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/eb...
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today in 1983, NATO began ABLE ARCHER 83, a European-wide nuclear weapons release exercise that paranoid Soviet leaders feared was a cover story for a nuclear first strike and “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger.” nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/eb...
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By popular demand (read: maybe three people asked me) — some thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite." TOTAL SPOILER ZONE, you have been warned! doomsdaymachines.net/p/bolt-out-o...
Bolt out of the blue
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite"
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November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
By popular demand (read: maybe three people asked me) — some thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite." TOTAL SPOILER ZONE, you have been warned! doomsdaymachines.net/p/bolt-out-o...
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Today in 1971, the United States conducted CANNIKIN, its largest-ever underground nuclear test. A Spartan antiballistic missile carrying a W71 thermonuclear warhead was lowered into a 7.5-foot-wide, 5,873-foot-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska, and detonated. The yield was about 5 Megatons.
November 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today in 1971, the United States conducted CANNIKIN, its largest-ever underground nuclear test. A Spartan antiballistic missile carrying a W71 thermonuclear warhead was lowered into a 7.5-foot-wide, 5,873-foot-deep shaft beneath Amchitka Island, Alaska, and detonated. The yield was about 5 Megatons.
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The first photo of my new book, courtesy of my editor... "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" comes out in early December! Feel free to pre-order it today! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The first photo of my new book, courtesy of my editor... "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" comes out in early December! Feel free to pre-order it today! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
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A more convenient form of Terry Wallace's statement.
A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out
A Former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Speaks Out - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Terry Wallace, 11th director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, posted this on his facebook page: On December 18, 1970, a nuclear weapons test was conducted in an underground shaft at the Nevada Test Site. The test, code-named Baneberry, was detonated at a depth of about 900 feet. Baneberry was a relatively small weapons test and […]
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November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A more convenient form of Terry Wallace's statement.
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F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief George Tidmarsh Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...
F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment
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November 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief George Tidmarsh Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...
Psst! Want to know a secret? US Tests its nuclear weapons all the time, just not w/ nuclear yield! Through Stockpile Stewardship program we scientifically verify nuclear deterrence is safe, secure, and effective. We should keep it that way because any alternative helps our adversaries!
October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Psst! Want to know a secret? US Tests its nuclear weapons all the time, just not w/ nuclear yield! Through Stockpile Stewardship program we scientifically verify nuclear deterrence is safe, secure, and effective. We should keep it that way because any alternative helps our adversaries!
Passing through a gloomy looking Paris at CDG.
October 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Passing through a gloomy looking Paris at CDG.
Yummy but spicy lunch yesterday!
Note to future self no more spicy Thai the day before international flight! Also, make sure your passport is signed before you get in the security line.
Note to future self no more spicy Thai the day before international flight! Also, make sure your passport is signed before you get in the security line.
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yummy but spicy lunch yesterday!
Note to future self no more spicy Thai the day before international flight! Also, make sure your passport is signed before you get in the security line.
Note to future self no more spicy Thai the day before international flight! Also, make sure your passport is signed before you get in the security line.
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Today in 1973, in response to CIA reports that the Soviet Union was shipping nuclear weapons and troops to Egypt to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Strategic Air Command, Continental Air Defense Command, European Command, and the Sixth Fleet all moved to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 1962.
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Today in 1973, in response to CIA reports that the Soviet Union was shipping nuclear weapons and troops to Egypt to intervene in the Yom Kippur War, Strategic Air Command, Continental Air Defense Command, European Command, and the Sixth Fleet all moved to DEFCON 3 for the first time since 1962.
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Nuclear science week tip: do not fall into the reactor pool!
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As Palisades works to load fuel, person falls into reactor cavity
A person fell into the nuclear reactor cavity at the Palisades plant in Southwest Michigan on Tuesday. They were taken for a medical evaluation and have returned to work.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Nuclear science week tip: do not fall into the reactor pool!
www.michiganpublic.org/news/2025-10...
www.michiganpublic.org/news/2025-10...
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Thrilled today to release our big report on tactical nukes.
In writing up all of the effects, it was striking just how unprepared we would be to handle any of these scenarios—and how much the mere presence of these weapons add vulnerability to any crisis.
Quick thread on why TNW are so risky:
In writing up all of the effects, it was striking just how unprepared we would be to handle any of these scenarios—and how much the mere presence of these weapons add vulnerability to any crisis.
Quick thread on why TNW are so risky:
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Thrilled today to release our big report on tactical nukes.
In writing up all of the effects, it was striking just how unprepared we would be to handle any of these scenarios—and how much the mere presence of these weapons add vulnerability to any crisis.
Quick thread on why TNW are so risky:
In writing up all of the effects, it was striking just how unprepared we would be to handle any of these scenarios—and how much the mere presence of these weapons add vulnerability to any crisis.
Quick thread on why TNW are so risky:
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Work to clean up long-lived radioactive waste at one of the world’s most polluted places took a big step forward last week, when a facility at a former nuclear weapons site in eastern Washington state began to entomb radioactive waste in glass. https://scim.ag/47fPwEp
Polluted weapons factory begins locking up nuclear waste in glass
After years of delay and political wrangling, DOE’s Hanford site opens vitrification plant
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October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Work to clean up long-lived radioactive waste at one of the world’s most polluted places took a big step forward last week, when a facility at a former nuclear weapons site in eastern Washington state began to entomb radioactive waste in glass. https://scim.ag/47fPwEp