nuclear weapons

Dropping the Atomic Bombs Was Good, Actually

Mike Coté July 27, 2023

The atomic bombs dropped on Japan are not only defensible, but actively good. The critics who ignore...

Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition nuclear

Thursday Throughput: Nuclear Explosion Edition

Michael Siegel November 7, 2019

So if you are standing next to a nuclear bomb, you will experience conditions similar to the...

Scientific Knowledge and Power Politics 4925999983_a8979dcb1a_b_nuclear-test

Scientific Knowledge and Power Politics

Jat September 1, 2016

Truman, Oppenheimer, and the H-Bomb

Cooler Than Lukewarm

Cooler Than Lukewarm

Burt Likko August 11, 2015

Looking for suggestions in the decidedly unlikely event of lunch with a member of Congress.

Don’t Be a Tellarite IFRL-TLC-War-specna-arms-1120115-unsplash

Don’t Be a Tellarite

Tom Van Dyke January 16, 2012

“Tellarites do not argue for any reason; they simply argue.” –Ambassador Sarek On the “censorship” front: Here...

This Month’s Cato Unbound IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Yoshitoshi-KintaroCarp

This Month’s Cato Unbound

Jason Kuznicki February 8, 2011

This month’s Cato Unbound is on one of those counterintuitive topics that I’ve taken a great deal...

David TC in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Than the Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixo…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeI understand that is what people quote from it, and seem to think it says, but that sentence is comp…
LeeEsq on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe cheating tools were a lot more primitive when I was in school but listening to tales of cheating…
Jaybird in reply to Michael Cain on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeHuh. You'd think that that'd be appealing. "Staff recommends you do the thing that I talked about in…
Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe last part of my interview for a job with the Colorado legislature's joint budget committee was t…
CJColucci on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeLee said he doesn’t know a single student at the school who isn’t using AI to cheat. Birds of a feat…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025The Daily Princetonian reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions o…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025First term it was a "blink and you'll miss it" thing, but yes it was on the RoR. I can't google up a…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Testing or measuring procedures cannot be determinative in employment decisions unless they have so…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I am not remembering this from the first Trump administration at all. I suppose it has to do somethi…