7 stories tagged nuclear-weapons, newest first.
172 points by liotier | 115 comments
Missileer.watch is a site that streams 11175 kHz HFGCS shortwave audio, transcribes US nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, and explains the network and launch capsules.
128 points by speckx | 147 comments
Blog post comparing Daniel Ellsberg's account of RAND nuclear strategists skipping retirement plans to the apocalyptic and utopian rhetoric of AI labs like Anthropic.
11 points by bookofjoe | 3 comments
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article arguing AI could trigger nuclear war without superintelligence or malicious intent; the screenshot shows a different article on Trump-Xi strategic stability.
400 points by pseudolus | 118 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature presenting forgotten, restored photographs of the 1945 Trinity atomic bomb test and what they show about the project's scale.
781 points by Vincent_Yan404 | 347 comments
A Substack memoir about growing up in a classified Chinese atomic bomb base in the Gobi Desert, a city known as "404" that was never on maps.
394 points by zdw | 317 comments
CSO Online news analysis reporting that foreign hackers breached the NNSA's Kansas City nuclear weapons plant by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities.
632 points by terryf | 191 comments
Alex Wellerstein's Restricted Data blog post examining whether a 2007 Sandia National Laboratories product logo depicted a thermonuclear weapon secondary.