@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota 3/ And where @AndrewSorota names a threat to the assembly code of democratic ecology, AI’s nuclear turn targets existence itself—epistemic capture at the infrastructural hinge where "peace" is secured by hair-trigger exposure to annihilation, as militaries race to deploy it.
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Tweet: 1/ 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. Subtweet: "Every $1 spent on lobbying generates an average of $256 in new nuclear weapons contracts." Tweet: 2/ The largest hydrogen bomb the United States ever tested yielded about fifteen megatons, or about one thousand Hiroshimas. The Soviet Union tested a weapon with a design yield of one hundred megatons that was modified to constrain its yield to only fifty-eight megatons. [Image of painting of nuclear explosion] Subtweet: 2/ Clearly, the diabolical infantilism of a hegemonic worldview ultimately affording itself no exit strategy other than its right and readiness to destroy the entirety of life on earth, is not a good look. Image: Taghreed Darghouth, Lebanon, "Brighter than a thousand Suns” Series New Year's tweet from US Strategic Command @US_Stratcom [since deleted by them] #TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball...if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger.... Tweet: end/ We will have to reckon with the nuclear question eventually. Why not now?
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