Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Who cares?
A better question is if anyone from one of the labs has ever gone to a Chinese restaurant and not reported it on the next clearance paper work. Anyone could be guilty....even you. The enemy is us not in Russian.
6/07/2019 4:20 AM
Obviously, there is none. CBTB was never ratified by nuclear states US, China, Israel, NK, India, Pakistan. Source: cbto.org.
6/08/2019 10:43 AM
It did not not "fail." It did well not to ratify.
Keep in mind that the soil beneath your feet is likely fissioning, albeit at a low rate. To outlaw all fissions by political fiat is a ridiculous fantasy.
Then it comes down to the definition of a nuclear explosion, which is not what is happening under most people's feet. I suspect that line of reasoning underlies the logic of some foreign scientists, and their leaders. Whether or not they act on such reasoning is a separate issue.
Use better language in a treaty next time. CTBT was doomed by the compromised wording of Article 1.
Well said.
This so-called "treaty" is fundamentally un-enforcible. If the Russians choose to ignore a worthless piece of paper, then they are provably smarter than the average policy wonk advising our elected politicians.
Critical thinking is a lost art in the US!
“The United States intelligence community, or a portion of it, has concluded that Russia is conducting very low-yield nuclear tests. Aaron Stein and Dr. Jeffrey Lewis discuss past allegations of nuclear testing, open source monitoring of Russia’s nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya and how the Trump Administration might change its mind on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.”
https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1207600/low-yield-nuclear-testing-in-russia/
You don't seem to following the major point, which is actually the point after all.
6/20/2019 6:52 PM
Still not getting it, are you. Sigh