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  1. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  2. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  3. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  4. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  5. “A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole”*…

    Larger version here

    … Well, our earth is riddled with them. And as our old friend Randall Munroe at xkcd reminds us, some of them are very deep…

    Holes

    Via Jason Kottke, who reminds us that “Explain xkcd has more info on each of the various holes, including the truly bonkers Cave of Crystals in Mexico” (and explanatory background on other xkcd posts as well…)

    Plautus

    ###

    As we spelunk, we might recall that it was on this date in 1962 that the U.S. military detonated Little Feller I, a tactical nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Sunbeam. It was the last near-ground atmospheric nuclear detonation conducted by the United States. The high-altitude Fishbowl tests concluded in November of1962 with a detonation at around 69,000 feet altitude. Thereafter, in accordance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, tests were conducted underground… more holes.

    https://youtu.be/eiM-RzPHyGs?si=tLLvcvNcta2JPKFN

    #atomicTest #atomicTests #boreHoles #caves #culture #geography #history #holes #kottke #LittleFellerI #mines #Nature #nuclearArms #nuclearTest #nuclearTests #partialTestBanTreaty #Technology #testBanTreaty #trenches #xkcd
  6. Echoing Pope Leo XIV, Experts Sign Rome Declaration on Limits for AI and Nuclear Arms| National Catholic Register

    The declaration was signed on July 16, marking the conclusion of a three-day Vatican summit on AI security…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #artificialintelligence #nucleararms
    europesays.com/italy/33006/

  7. Lithuania Aims to Be ‘Part of Nuclear Deterrence’ Against Russia: President


    Lithuania’s president said Friday his country wants to be integrated into Western nuclear deterrence against Russia…
    #Lithuania #LT #Europe #Europa #EU #Lietuva #lithuania #NATO #naujienos #nucleararms #Russia
    europesays.com/3111813/

  8. Why North Korea Got the Bomb (And Iran Did Not, for Now)

    Why did North Korea get nuclear weapons when other states with similar nuclear ambitions like Iraq, Syria, and…
    #Conflict #Conflicts #War #foreignaffairs #IranIsrael #Militaryaffairs #northkorea #nucleararms #NuclearProliferation #pyunghwa(tim)park #urikidron
    europesays.com/3081040/

  9. Why North Korea Got the Bomb (And Iran Did Not, for Now)

    Why did North Korea get nuclear weapons when other states with similar nuclear ambitions like Iraq, Syria, and…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #foreignaffairs #iranisrael #Militaryaffairs #nucleararms #nuclearproliferation #pyunghwa(tim)park #urikidron
    europesays.com/korea/61001/

  10. Russia and Belarus Launch Joint Nuclear Drills

    Russia and Belarus launched joint military exercises on Monday to practice the combat deployment of tactical nuclear weapons,…
    #Belarus #BY #Europe #Europa #EU #News #nucleararms
    europesays.com/belarus/321/

  11. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen states that it is evident a nuclear arms race has commenced. #NuclearArms #GlobalSecurity

  12. US Schedules Overnight Minuteman III Nuclear Missile Test at Vandenberg

    The US Air Force has announced a new operational test of the LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile…
    #Nuclear #Arms #ballisticmissile #intercontinentalballisticmissile #lgm-30minuteman #militarytesting #MinutemanIIIICBM #Missiles #nuclear #nucleararms #USAirForce #Weapons
    europesays.com/2819358/

  13. @adub

    It’s hard to overstate how incredibly reckless and destabilizing an idea this is: it’s bad enough knowing that there are thousands of weapons half a world away that can reach targets in under an hour, not imagine those same weapons constantly orbiting over your head, with time to target reduced to mere minutes.

    Not to mention the risk of accidents or questions like how to de-orbit them, or the possibility of nuclear space junk (not so) randomly landing around the world, or what happens in the event of a Kessler cascade.

    #NuclearArms #WorldPol #Russia

  14. @adub

    It’s hard to overstate how incredibly reckless and destabilizing an idea this is: it’s bad enough knowing that there are thousands of weapons half a world away that can reach targets in under an hour, not imagine those same weapons constantly orbiting over your head, with time to target reduced to mere minutes.

    Not to mention the risk of accidents or questions like how to de-orbit them, or the possibility of nuclear space junk (not so) randomly landing around the world, or what happens in the event of a Kessler cascade.

    #NuclearArms #WorldPol #Russia

  15. @adub

    It’s hard to overstate how incredibly reckless and destabilizing an idea this is: it’s bad enough knowing that there are thousands of weapons half a world away that can reach targets in under an hour, not imagine those same weapons constantly orbiting over your head, with time to target reduced to mere minutes.

    Not to mention the risk of accidents or questions like how to de-orbit them, or the possibility of nuclear space junk (not so) randomly landing around the world, or what happens in the event of a Kessler cascade.

    #NuclearArms #WorldPol #Russia

  16. @adub

    It’s hard to overstate how incredibly reckless and destabilizing an idea this is: it’s bad enough knowing that there are thousands of weapons half a world away that can reach targets in under an hour, not imagine those same weapons constantly orbiting over your head, with time to target reduced to mere minutes.

    Not to mention the risk of accidents or questions like how to de-orbit them, or the possibility of nuclear space junk (not so) randomly landing around the world, or what happens in the event of a Kessler cascade.

    #NuclearArms #WorldPol #Russia

  17. @adub

    It’s hard to overstate how incredibly reckless and destabilizing an idea this is: it’s bad enough knowing that there are thousands of weapons half a world away that can reach targets in under an hour, not imagine those same weapons constantly orbiting over your head, with time to target reduced to mere minutes.

    Not to mention the risk of accidents or questions like how to de-orbit them, or the possibility of nuclear space junk (not so) randomly landing around the world, or what happens in the event of a Kessler cascade.

    #NuclearArms #WorldPol #Russia