#Nuclear

Ben Storrow

bstorrow

I compared Texas to its neighboring power grids, which have also experienced bone chilling temperatures but have not struggled to the same degree. The differences reveal a lot about what

Hemant Mohapatra

MohapatraHemant

Happy 73rd India! Around for 1000s of yrs, but in charge of our destiny as a modern nation only since ‘47. In last 20 yrs, we’ve 6x-ed our GDP, touched

David Swanson

davidcnswanson

Military spending has soared, while govt. and media have pretended there's a shortage of funding for everything else. A thread.1. it has made us less safe, while murdering innocents, destroying

Benjamin Wolf

benbawan

“What the fuck happened in 1971?” Well, we all know correlation is not causation – and there are many potential causes: deregulation, the oil shocks, the end of Keynesianism, China

Flick Ruby

FlickRubicon

What have we learned from @WikiLeaks ? Friends, this thread will go for a while. Consider and evaluate whether this material is in the public interest as events regarding #WikiLeaks

Ofer Zalzberg

OferZalzberg

NYTimes @halbfinger did analysts a genuine service with this informative Ambassador Friedman interview (+ two threads), getting several candid answers to important questions hitherto left unanswered.My own thoughts on the

Uncle Patrick

favourite_uncle

I don't think the AC-130 even cracks the Top 10https://twitter.com/isaiah_bb/status/1360462832882565120 1. SR-71 BlackbirdThere's at least 1 anecdote of this plane outrunning anti-aircraft missiles over Libya 2. A-10 Thunderbolt II,

Danial

DTehrany

Negar Mortazavi1- born in 1981 in Tehrancurrently living in Washington D.C. Journalist ,analyst and researcher on Iran and the Middle East and one of the lobbyist of @NIACouncil for the

Bumfuzzle

Bumfuzzle74

Here'sa ranking of the top-20 armed forces of the world with gist of their prowess. 20) Budget: $15.7 bn Active frontline personnel: 92,000 Tanks: 181 Aircraft: 420 Submarines: 4Since end of Cold War, Canadian

guynewey

guynewey

Some thoughts on the PM 10-point package. First, the politics. This is the first substantial climate intervention by a PM since the start of the coalition. That matters. It gives

RustBelt Rebel

RustBeltRebel

you guys, you can't talk about confronting white supremacy without talking about power. there's a difference between being a hateful jerk and being a hateful jerk with power. i could

Albert Pinto

70sBachchan

75th anniversary of the Trinity atomic bomb test! Some wondeful stories about how the Manhattan Project influenced science & culture.https://insidescience.org/manhattan-project-legacy https://twitter.com/dschwa8059/status/12835928078784

Evan

evan7257

Some real Bad News For Houston in the NYTimes opinion section today 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/opinion/solar-wind-natural-gas-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage The big threat isn't the fac

Benjamin Haddad

benjaminhaddad

Maybe the best book to understand some of the modern dilemmas of French foreign policy, but also lessons for transatlantic relations. De Gaulle’s political genius during WWII was to understand

Dirk Chatelain

dirkchatelain

Meant to share this weeks ago, but it's the last day of 2020 so a little reflection and inspiration seems appropriate.The subject? Ernie Chambers.1/ The invitation seemed simple enough. Phoenix

Claire’s Outrageous Thoughts

claireOT

Every woman I know (that has kids) is the one taking primary responsibility for their kids education, during lockdowns. This means we *cannot* achieve what we normally can at work,

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