I can't believe Russia might have lied about that.

How hard can it be?

One thing I recently updated: US supercomputing zoomed past the benchmark established for stockpile stewardship (100 tflops) and also China has too. The Chinese have the computers to design new weapons, but what they don't have is the data from nuclear testing -- yet.

One problem with testing "on an equal basis" with Russia and China is that they might not be on equal basis with each other. If we match Russia, China gets a free pass to follow. China has the smallest number of tests (45 v 🇷🇺715 and 🇺🇸1032) and ∴ the most to gain from new data.

It's very confused and confusing.

Yes, so it provides a very (unnecessarily) elaborate solution to maintaining Russia's assured-retaliatory capability, but apart from that I can't see what use all that is.

Putin's new nuclear weapons may be terrifying in their own way, but they are no more terrifying than those that have been around for decades and possessed by multiple countries.

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A system with very detailed rules on steam catapults and shower heads, but next to nothing on health and education.

I still live in hope that there will be a Democratic majority in one house or the other at some future point.