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Iran’s nuclear options
From ‘What is next for Iran’s nuclear programme?’, The Hindu, June 28, 2025: As things stand, Iran has amassed both the technical knowhow and the materials required to make a nuclear weapon. Second, the Israelis and the Americans have failed … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis
Tagged centrifuges, Donald Trump, highly enriched uranium, Iran, Israel, Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear programme, nuclear weapons, Tehran, uranium feedstock, weapons-grade uranium
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Four years
Engineering as a methodology … contains a fundamentally materialist kernel, even if its present incarnation as a bourgeois science drives engineers to think and behave otherwise. — Nick Chavez, Engineers, Materialism, and the Communist Method After school, I studied mechanical … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Life notes, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Air India, Axiom Space, Axiom-4, bourgeois science, CP Snow, engineering, engineering education, flight crash, Indian Space Research Organisation, International Atomic Energy Agency, Israel-Iran conflict, materialism, MV Ramana, Nick Chavez, nuclear weapons, science journalism, SpaceX, temporary expertise, two cultures
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The missile test before the polls
On March 27, 2019, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted ‘Mission Shakti’: India’s first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test. After the event, the national broadcaster broadcast an hour-long speech by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since the Election Commission’s restrictions … Continue reading
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Tagged Agni V, ASAT test, Defence Research and Development Organisation, DF-41 missile, Divyastra test, DRDO, Lok Sabha elections, nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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Review: ‘Oppenheimer’ (2023)
Oppenheimer was great. I really liked it. I don’t have a review as much as some notes that I took during the film that I’d like to share. But before diving into them, I should say that I got a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science
Tagged atomic bombings, blue sky research, Edward Teller, George Kistiyakowsky, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kenneth Bainbridge, Leslie Groves, Lewis Strauss, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer, Robert Serber, Trinity test, Vannevar Bush
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Unseating Feynman, and Fermi
Do physicists whitewash the legacy of Enrico Fermi the same way they do Richard Feynman? Feynman disguised his sexism as pranks and jokes, and writers have spent thousands of pages offering his virtues as a great physicist and teacher as … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Enrico Fermi, feminism, Leo Szilard, nuclear weapons, Richard Feynman, science and society, sexism, Szilard petition
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Some thoughts on the nature of cyber-weapons
The agents of cyber-warfare are trapped as much as liberated by the ambiguities surrounding what the nature of a cyber-weapon is at all, with what intent and for what purpose it was crafted, allowing its repercussions to seem anywhere from rapid to evanescent. Continue reading
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Tagged Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cyber-war, cyber-weapons, doctrine of proportionality, Edward Snowden, Heartbleed, intent, Joseph Rotblat, just war, Kiwicon 2015, nuclear weapons, Solly Zuckerman, Wassenaar Arrangement
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