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How Holtec International became an expanding (and controversial) nuclear power The firm's history of overpromising and underdelivery raises a question: Is this who we should trust with the future of nuclear energy?

This story—based on months of research by a top investigative reporter—should be read by everyone interested in the nuclear industry, pro or con. thebulletin.org/2025/11/how-...

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Filling out info for a new bank account has me wanting to throw my computer out a window.

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.

Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.

I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing.

🚨 JUST IN: Citizen activism and legislative pressures helped stop US nuclear weapon testing. They will be needed again to protect the moratorium against Trump's call for renewed testing, writes David Cortright.

#Trump #nuclearweapons #nucleartests #nukesky

“Let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.”

#NewYorkerCartoons @newyorker.com

Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...

Praising a medical breakthrough originally funded by (now-gutted) NIH funding. 🤡

$LLY $NVO

The ending of A House of Dynamite leaves many questions unanswered, intentionally. In reality, we won’t have that luxury.

My colleague Isabelle Williams and I pick up where the movie ends, exploring what would unfold in the minutes, hours, and months after the missile hits Chicago.

Just your regular reminder that misinformed and confusing rants can have real consequences.

The 'Zapad' exercise and how Lukashenko learned to love the Bomb Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's Zapad strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it...

🚨 JUST IN: Despite being highly anticipated, the sudden change in public rhetoric about this year's "Zapad" strategic military exercise suggests that the Russia-Belarus relationship may be more complicated than it appears, write @gabrielairosa.bsky.social and @dexeve.bsky.social.

#nuclearweapons

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month The quandaries posed by the nuclear film pantheon are the same ones experts in the nuclear threat reduction community face daily.

Happy #Godzilla day!

If you find yourself watching the original 1954 version of Gojira, consider following it up with one of the 19 other nuclear films Rebecka Green, the host of the upcoming NukeTalk podcast, watched last month.

This is about as on-the-nose as it's possible to get without it being a Versailles, Romanovs, or Titanic themed party.

Video: How Big Tech is reviving colonialism Allison Stanger explains how Big Tech CEOs became more powerful than some elected heads of state, and why citizens should be concerned about Big Tech’s ability to influence government policy.

Allison Stanger talks about the similarities the US-tech company alliance has with the old, dark days of British colonialism. @erik-english.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
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this is really bad

Seems like an appropriate time for this

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Washington's neglect of South Korea’s security concerns is a proliferation problem To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner.

🚨 JUST IN: To deflate Seoul's nuclear ambitions, Washington needs to make its commitment to South Korean security credible and demonstrate that it sees its ally as an equal partner, @jackkennedy.ie writes in his first piece for @thebulletin.org.

#nuclearweapons #SouthKorea #Trump #ICE #nukesky

President Trump's radical attack on radiation safety If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—t...

🚨 JUST IN: If President Trump's executive order results in a new public radiation exposure limit of around 10 rem—that opponents to the linear no-threshold (LNT) model for radiation exposure often advocate for—the increased health risks would be extraordinary.

#nuclearsafety #Trump #nukesky

Will the Trump administration attempt to annex Greenland, Canada, or somewhere else? A prominent historian’s take How seriously should the world take the Trump administration's threats to annex the lands of other countries "one way or another?" The author of "How to Hide an Empire" says that while a land grab may...

This is a great interview with Daniel Immerwahr that's currently free in @thebulletin.org

"If you think that the appropriate way to seek power is to seize foreign lands, you quickly run into the problem of your neighbors doing the same thing."

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

A House of Dynamite: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.

"All of the events portrayed in A House of Dynamite could happen at any moment—today, even. And that's the point," writes @erik-english.bsky.social in his new review of "A House of Dynamite." ⬇️

And in case you're wondering why you should trust my insights on Bigelow's latest film, I would just like to mention that my dog is named after Swayze's character, Bodhi, from her classic film, Point Break.

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

A House of Dynamite: Bigelow’s latest thriller shows why nuclear bombs are only part of the danger Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, examines how the US government would respond to a nuclear attack in real-time.

Nolan’s biopic of Oppenheimer and the creation of the bomb was obviously fantastic, but Bigelow’s realistic look at the modern nuclear situation is much scarier because it highlights how quickly everything can go wrong and how little people really think about it.

Good lord.

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Conflating personal, work, and global anxieties is my superpower.