August | 2025 | Nuclear Diner
1 post published by Cheryl Rofer during August 2025| Nuclear Diner
To use the word “negotiations” about tomorrow’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, if we consider its historical use for other actions between representatives of their nations, is to …| Nuclear Diner
Back when I was awarding contracts for environmental restoration, there would be some bidders who had nothing to do with environmental restoration. Their plan was to “team with” or subcontract to a…| Nuclear Diner
My colleague at Balloon Juice, Tom Levenson, has written another book. Tom is a popular-science writer and has written a number of books on various aspects of science – climate, Newton, Einstein ar…| Nuclear Diner
I have a number of questions about the overhead photos of the bombing at Fordo. I haven’t done a detailed photo analysis like this in a long time – probably back to the photos of what turned out to be a Syrian reactor under construction in 2007. And I’m not up to date on how […]| Nuclear Diner
Fiona Hill was the Russia specialist on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term. She’s actually a top expert on Russia. She is now chancellor of Durham University in England. She’s given a couple of interviews lately. One from a week ago in The Telegraph mentioned that she felt that Trump was afraid […]| Nuclear Diner
This is very badly done. It is hard to know where to start in critiquing it. The author, Andy Haverly, is said to be at the Rochester Institute of Technology, although another source puts him at Mi…| Nuclear Diner
The Ukrainian drone attack hit two components of the Russian nuclear force. The primary purpose of the attack was to destroy the planes that launch cruise missiles at Ukraine. Some of those planes are also the types that carry nuclear weapons. There also were hits at Severomorsk, the headquarters of the Northern Fleet and Russia’s […]| Nuclear Diner
I have a simple heuristic for trying to understand whether people have a good point. If they suggest injecting bleach or if they bundle a roadkilled bear cub into their car to eat later, you don’t …| Nuclear Diner
Last week I saw an obituary in the New Mexican of someone who made a difference in my life. We were professional colleagues, never close friends. But that difference was consequential beyond me, an…| Nuclear Diner
The New York Post this week ran an article highly critical of Donald Trump’s chief negotiator for Israel-Palestine, Iran, and Russia’s war on Ukraine, Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is a real estate buddy of Trump’s, so he must be one of the greatest negotiators ever! Marco Rubio has been assigned more titles than Witkoff, but that’s […]| Nuclear Diner
Russia sent a new missile last night to Dnipro that provided a spectacular show. In combination with its change in nuclear doctrine, the message is “This is what a nuclear strike might look like.” …| Nuclear Diner
I am getting questions and seeing too many bad takes on nuclear proliferation in the Trump administration. I advise everyone to sit down quietly. Nothing is going to happen quickly, and probably a …| Nuclear Diner
I hate this. Something that isn’t much talked about is the opportunity cost of electing Donald Trump. There are plenty of things to deal with more immediately, like the prospect of of mass deportat…| Nuclear Diner
The Project 2025 chapter* on the State Department is a plan to transform the State Department into the President’s political arm in international affairs. Institutional knowledge would be jettisone…| Nuclear Diner
