@BulletinAtomic @LarryKorb So, anybody got an answer to a global authoritarian surge playing to the sudden, explosive, mimetic escalation in algorithmically-supercharged, Cloud-driven technologies abrogating the geopolitical psycho-dynamics historically putting a brake on Armageddon? Hands up, then.
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Copy of tweet thread here: If you trust me on one thing, trust me on this: America and the West are in deep trouble if the incoming administration neglects to consult and trust at least one person who understands from the inside out all three of technology, geopolitics, and Orthodox Christianity. Ah, the nuclear issue, you mean. And patently facile, of course, to assume that Russian Christo-nationalist rhetoric and policy relating to nuclear weapons is a one-way street. Such theologico-political perversion, multilateral. In witness and response, a greater perspective may be more fully apropos, then? Never mind the Samson Option, what of a truer perspective of Empire apologetics including the Orthodox-Russian axis and, in that light, 'sacerdotal cover' taking the form of a distinctively ecumenical mushroom cloud? Clearly, there's a role for the Planetary Prince of Peace, yet.
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Copy of bluesky post here: Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social What weapons, exactly, does Trump now control, you might ask? The answers can be found in the link below: Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social Just published in @bulletinatomic.bsky.social, the latest edition of Nuclear Notebook—“United States nuclear weapons, 2025”—which contains the most reliable, up-to-date, open-source information on the size, disposition, and status of the US nuclear arsenal. tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... Nick Routledge @nickroutledge.bsky.social Stephen, the modern, militant, Orthodox, theocratic dimension to Russian nuclear politics seems relatively well documented at this point. Is there anyone lucidly assessing the evolving nuclear religio-geopolitical narrative in the light of our own, complementary, accelerating Christofascist surge?
@thebafflermag Personally, I vote for more in the way of divine intervention.
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Copy of tweet here: #HiroshimaDay2022 The US nuclear stockpile currently comprises some 3,700 deployed bombs/warheads, equivalent to about 58,039 Hiroshima-sized bombs. Explode one of those bombs per minute and it would take 40.3 days to use them all. Nuclear weapons remain the greatest threat, by far, to long term human well being and civilizational integrity There's plenty to be despondent about this #HiroshimaDay, but given the grotesque assortment of festering despots, lethal clowns, and howling nut jobs currently in power all over the world, we're fucking lucky any of us are still here at all. Noam Chomsky Quotes It's hard to contest the conclusion of the last commander of the Strategic Air Command, Gen . Lee Butler, that humanity has so far survived the nuclear age “by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”