Nuclear Diner

Peripatetic Plutonium The US government has 34 tons of plutonium it wants to dispose of. By 1990, the US and Russia held something like 65,000 nuclear weapons. The dissolution of the Soviet Union led to significant decr…

Juicing the Nuclear Weapons Complex Marty Pfeiffer (.bsky.social on Bluesky) is a gadfly to DOE and NNSA, mainly through their Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) programs. He has been complaining that NNSA has not publis…

Nations That Might Build Nuclear Weapons It’s probably a good idea to read my earlier post on why nations don’t want nuclear weapons before reading this one. The various factors in a decision to build a nuclear arsenal weigh differently f…

Why Nations Don’t Want Nuclear Weapons As larger nations that have nuclear weapons attack smaller nations that don’t have nuclear weapons, conventional wisdom is that more nations will want nuclear weapons. This is less certain than muc…