Scott LaFoy

Texting "test a nuke, get a pod" back to 2017 so my past self can have a meltdown

I have such good news for you

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social!

For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.

If you want the full story of Franklin just look at my next tweet!

It's an epic tale of blimps, balloons and nuclear weapons🧵

It's June 2, which means it's the anniversary of the 1957 Franklin Shot fizzle from Operation Plumbbob, which is really only of note because of its extreme @gbrumfiel.bsky.social oriented content

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I guess it's that time of year again!

Analyzing the Utility of Arrow 3 for European Missile Defense Using Footprint Calculations After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, missile defense systems became more prominent and sought after on a global scale. In 2023, Germany decided to purchase the Israeli Arrow ...

New article by my colleagues @ohnemax.bsky.social and @kadyshev.bsky.social on the utility of Arrow 3 against Russian ICBM, IRBM, MRBM and SRBM.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8AV5B...

This is the proper way to make it through January, although the lack of Lao Gan Ma is concerning

incredible

Not the most photogenic, but extremely solid flavor

Vanilla saffron is a really interesting combo I've never heard before!

Attempting some Georgian dishes from the Supra cookbook for NYE.

Eggplant with seasoned walnut paste (nigvziani badrijani) and adjaruli khachapuri, plus some salmon with capers (not pictured) as an appetizer.

With a lil champagne/mimosa.

Happy new year, friends.

Hopefully better than 2024

googling "FedRAMP kanban software" and feeling the last of my youth slip away

It is important to understand the relationship between Kanto and the world beyond via the seder ninetailshelut

The other phrase I used on Twitter was "Judeo-Ketchum Arithmancy" but I'm not sure bluesky is ready for such concepts

Twitter is doing Abrahamic-Pokemon Numerology on the assassin

That's obviously his health bar

A blue shield shaped logo with, in darker blue & capital letters,word “sandia” on top, word “atomic” on left (Printed vertically with left as “bottom”) and “museum” on right (printed vertically with bottom as right ). In middle of shield & between the words is a smaller shield shape of dark blue with a white mushroom cloud with a stylized atomic symbol in red at its base. The logo which seems made of painted wood perhaps is set on a dark wooden plaque with a bronze-ish metal square inlaid at bottom left. It is inscribed with the following: SANDIA ATOMIC MUSEUMFOUNDATION GEORGE L. DOOLITTLE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 18 JULY 1975

Went to Sandia 75 Anniversary temp exhib at Nuclear Museum (NMNSH) today.

full picset to flickr/nuclearanthro soon.

Some initial thoughts:

Sole mention AFAICT of past & ongoing links of NMNSH as Sandia’s museum is an (AFAICT) UNLABELLED(?!?) plaque from 1973.

#NukeSky

1/n

#DissertationWriting

Russia's Defense Ministry has released photos of what it says is wreckage from U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, fired by Ukraine into Kursk Oblast November 23-25 (Khalino airfield was one site that was targeted)

Russia Says It Fired an Unprecedented New Type of Hypersonic Missile for the First Time Ever Russian President Vladimir Putin says the weapon was developed very rapidly, hyping it up as an unstoppable hypersonic precision-strike weapon.

Last week Russia made first combat use of a strategic nuclear missile and its MIRV submunition, thankfully without nuclear warheads. Read on to learn the likely familiar origin of the allegedly new Oreshnik missile, claimed concept of use and why ambiguity as to its IRBM vs. ICBM class is baked in.

I believe that is correct, and is consistent with my notes (which have admittedly not fully kept up with the last couple years).

oh heck yes

If there was ever a topic to be nitpicky on, this is it lol

I believe this is correct, but I'm going to review my notes and also ping @dexeve.bsky.social

MRBMs, definitely. Houthis have been launching MRBMs as recently as October this year.

IRBMs, I can't think of offhand, and definitely not for IRBMs actually fired at IRBM-ranges.

I think it may! That's where I'd need to do more digging. Was the idea meant to be more nuclear?

I think you're correct, Geoff and I were also DM'ing about whether Tomahawk and ancient OG Scud counted

I love this specific iteration of this meme because it is one of the most *accurate* while still being funny. It has a solid amount of implicit commentary built into it without just making things up or going totally insane with the Radical boxes.

Art.

This is unironically one of my favorite versions of this meme

"primarily designed to carry nuclear weapons used" as a conventional weapon in combat is an interesting phrase.

That makes me want to do some digging...