LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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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