May 30, 2011

May 30, 2011 by yorksranter 0 comments

ACW: still great

Did I mention that Arms Control Wonk is still great? The guided nuclear bomb. Bureaucratic consequences of A.Q. Khan. The clean-up of Semipalatinsk, including an actual loose nuke, which was disposed of back in 1995 without anyone getting hurt.

Unternehmen Walküre – Wikipedia
Vor dem Versenden dieser ersten Serie der Fernschreiben wurde eine folgenschwere technische Fehlentscheidung gefällt: Stauffenbergs Adjutant Hauptmann Friedrich Karl Klausing ließ sie auf Rückfrage des Fernmelders zwar mit höchster Dringlichkeitsstufe (FFR) markieren, außerdem aber als „Geheime Kommandosache“ (gKdoS) klassifizieren. Als letztere konnten sie nicht gleichzeitig an jeweils 30 Empfänger durchgegeben werden, sondern mussten zunächst verschlüsselt […]
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But when that practitioner stopped doing it because, in Winter’s words, she “felt it was only a matter of time before something went wrong”, she found someone on Instagram who had done a one-day training course while working at a fast-food restaurant.
Etched | The World's First Transformer ASIC
new chip new chip new chip
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ah, the old classic "autocratic foreign power will not have it that democracy is real" story. see also: so many times when Germany or Russia or somewhere wanted the police to stop Karl Marx or somebody writing
Starmer's core executive reveals a centralization of power | British Politics and Policy at LSE
interesting; decided against Miliband as SVP&GM of Stuff after all. very tight group around the gt. offices. piece would be better if Angela Rayner's surname, Keir Starmer's first name, and either of Anneliese Dodds' names were spelled right.
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For the past 14 years, Mr Badenoch has worked at Deutsche Bank and is currently the global head of “future of work and real estate transformation” according to his LinkedIN.