Monday, January 11, 2021

Favorite Films

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My Disaster-Wise blog is now ten years old, with a few hundred posts and about a third of a million views along the way. I never really intr...
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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Those "nuclear codes" that travel with the President

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I've seen several articles lately about distancing the President from the National Command Authority (NCA), the rather short decision c...
Monday, December 14, 2020

"Never Despair of the Commonwealth"

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Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's letter to Nathaniel Niles March 22, 1801 "The late chapter of our history furnishes a lesson to ma...
Friday, October 16, 2020

John Tyler: VP, President, and Nearly a Techno-casualty

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Thinking of the Pence/Harris debate gone by, I looked back at this 2012 NPR  feature  on vice presidents .  Not just long-forgotten, many VP...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Concealed nuclear weapons: an atomic-age nightmare that's never gone away

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Finished another feature for Air&Space/Smithsonian Magazine, "Block that Bomb," online today and linked here . It describes a...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Essayons! The reason for unity during WW2 is no mystery

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Writers have been calling for World War II-style unity lately, but seem puzzled: how did Americans achieve the apparent, single-minded unity...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Donors and Acceptors: Physical distancing lessons from the explosives industry

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Since I'm an analogy guy the notion of masks "to protect you from me, and me from you" reminded me of what I learned about an ...