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Vice President Biden: ‘The test ban treaty is as important as ever.’

Also published here. It’s turning out to be a rather eventful week for nuclear weapons news, on both the domestic front and the international stage. For the sake of clarity, I’m going to deal with what’s going on in the US in this post, and address international issues separately. First of all, the Obama administration [...]
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The Mushroom Clouds on the Horizon: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Originally published here. I was stunned. I mean, it was big. I’d been trying to visualize what it was going to be like, and I’d worked out a way to calibrate the shot. The initial fireball I guess I calibrated by holding up a quarter. If the quarter would cover the fireball then the yield [...]
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