Recurring theme: disinformation

Bringing this topic back. Musk is about to give amnesty on band  correction: banned) twitter people. That means we will (be) in for an onslaught of fake information and violence. If we cannot shut down twitter can the labs at least use science and tech to combat fake information? This could be more important than any possible nuclear war.

Carbon capture technology

 

Climate Now’s James Lawler was invited to tour LLNL’s Carbon Capture Lab. 

https://climatenow.com/podcast/what-is-the-future-of-carbon-capture-technology/

NIF Back on Track

 High-Laser-Energy Shot Puts NIF Back on Track Toward Ignition

https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/high-energy-shot-puts-nif-back-on-track-toward-ignition

Can physicists combat nuclear war climate damage?

 https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/202212/nuclear.cfm

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00573-0
This paper claims 2 billion would die in war between Pakistan and India.

As near as I can tell their numbers are off by a factor of 100 to 1000

What is odd is they even mention " after the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland1 or the 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia2,3' They could have considered Krakatoa as well. All these events are like 100-1000 times more ash than Pakistan India war. I cannot for the life of me figure out wow they get 5–47 Tg of soot, which would most likely be less than 16 by their own numbers. I do not think these soot numbers are even correct since they comparing them to volcanos. None of their numbers make any sense to me if you do some simple back of the envelope calculations in comparison to past volcanic events. They also do the usual thing and assume the nukes are dropped right on top of the most populated cities where they would mostly be used against military targets.

They use CESM is a state-of-the-art climate model but I think it is pretty clear these climate models are not very accurate.

Safety Concerns at NNSA

 Inspection Report on Allegations of Safety Concerns at the National Nuclear Security Administration Albuquerque Complex

https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DOE/DOE-OIG-23-03.pdf

Is the big one coming?

 https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-nuclear-forces-chief-says-the-big-one-is-coming/5798277

The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come.

“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of US Strategic command. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”

Richard’s warning came after the US released its new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which reaffirms that the US doctrine allows for the first use of nuclear weapons. The review says that the purpose of the US nuclear arsenal is to “deter strategic attacks, assure allies and partners, and achieve US objectives if deterrence fails.”