I see that President Trump has ordered the United States to resume nuclear weapon testing for the first time since President Bush ended the practice in 1992. It will be nice to know if the damned things work, demonstrate that they work and perhaps reawaken a spirit long dead in the Strategic Weapons Commands that fell so low that we lost any meaningful control of nuclear weapons in our own magazines much less the growing arsenals of nuclear weapons in the Far East, Middle East and Soviet Union Russia.
There are some obvious concerns given the depth of the fall in the ranks of those who are charged with developing and controlling nuclear weapons. I have no idea how any sane person can begin to imagine whatever the Hell the Personnel Reliability Program has turned into in the hands of men like Milley and the tools that gave DEI free rein and also found that there are no grounds for refusing a clearance to anybody no matter how deviant or dishonorable they are.
I wonder who is really watching over the nuclear weapons these days. I'd be happy to learn that the Marines were given the job because I know they don't fuck around. I think the Army and Air Force are compromised at every level from General and SES down to PFC with actual enemies of the United States and enemies of the West. The same goes for the Navy. Thanks to the abysmal failures of the FBI, Office of Personnel Management and others, the country and the armed forces are stuffed with foreign agents who owe their true allegiance to other countries. We're not talking spies here, we're talking actual enemies wearing our uniforms and serving at every level in our military.
I will begin to think we are taking steps to correct this when they re-institute the old bottom blow program and give Commanders carte blanche to administratively separate up to 10% of their people for the Good of the Service but that old thing only applied to E-3 and below and we need to purge every level without having to summon anyone to the bar of justice and bring in the lawyers because that just won't work.
When the nations start to send signals using nuclear weapons we're back to the Cold War again. The obvious next step is to resume redeploying tactical nuclear weapons to ships and bases overseas. We won't like the color of that smoke signal.
And you thought the conflagration was all behind you and safely in the past, didn't you?
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Just a sign of the times friend. You knew that genie would stay in that bottle forever.
What saddens me more is posters often here posting across the internet that Putin's nukes are just propaganda and thus imply WE have the BIG GUNS (subtext AND we should use them, Nuke Tomahawks for Ukraine crap).
The CIA calls that foreshadowing and it used to generate Public SUPPORT for an action normally thought of as abhorrent, like Nuke them till they glow.
I could cross post examples but the toilet flush comments would show up.
Testing doesn't require an actual detonation but nuclear warheads are not like other munitions. You can't just build one, stick it in a bomb and warehouse it for 20 years. They have to be routinely maintained if you want them to actually function as intended. As for who is in charge of them? That's no good question. Another issue is who and how qualified are the people responsible for insuring they are functional. Our education system has not turned out a lot of highly qualified STEM graduates lately. I'd hate to think we are relying on H1B imports for the job and the original group of engineers and inventors are either long dead or retired.
Interesting data about tritium (critical for nuclear weapons)
https://lynceans.org/all-posts/u-s-tritium-production-for-the-nuclear-weapons-stockpile-not-like-the-old-days-of-the-cold-war/
Trouble inside the nation, Seems credible threats against Trump officials have caused several to move into secure Militarty base housing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-stephen-miller/684748/
AND EBT-SNAP is going to lapse as democrats continue their game of Chicken with Trump over 1.5 trillion pork for illegals (too many sites to verify this)
Looks like our Color Revolution against Trump is ongoing.
I'd suggest following Ole Remus's advice about staying away from stupid people doing stupid things.
and always avoid crowds. Ole Remus was a constant ray of sunshine...not to mention a source of "Good Stuff".
I retired as an E-7 over 20 years ago. It wasn't until I made Master Sargent did I learn about the back door deals that go on. Make friends with the OSI NCOIC and monitor his email to keep on top of what is going on within the base. There is always booze when pilots were around and they trade booze for things. The pilots were not authorized international calling rights on their room phones and I was the commo NCOIC that had control over that. I suddenly have scotch and the pones in the pilots hooch's have no restrictions. Did you know the world revolves around jet pilots and Commo NCOIC's.
E-9's will drop their challenge coin to get a Comm work order bumped to the top of the list or to find out who to smooze at Base Ops to be bumped to the top of a flight list. It was a gray to black market. It was all give and take at management level.
It won't be too much longer before we start making compounds available for elected officials because the Courts and the Law have let the mobs get totally out of control. The only brake on extremism is to make good solid horrible examples of the lawbreakers and we just plain stopped doing that for anything. There is no way to guarantee their safety and security outside of an old fashioned Army post but if you've been to Fort Myer you know just how vulnerable even those are nowadays.
I miss Ole Remus. He and Lex were daily reads for a long time.
I was reading the bit on Enrico Fermi over at Virtual Mirage. He's on Timewaster's blogroll and I hit most of them every day. What struck me about the bit on Fermi was him standing in a squash court under an crappy ole stadium watching the first reactor going critical and saying that it was performing safely and as predicted and using his slip stick to run the numbers as they came in. As I think about and the kerfuffle over NASA's total inability to build a moon rocket, I think that we actually stopped being able to really engineer anything right about the time we 'progressed' beyond using slide rules. It's like the men who engineer things don't actually know the math anymore and use the crutch of computers to get them over the hump when what is called for is actually pure brainpower and an agile mind. NASA hasn't seen one of them since Buzz Aldrin walked out the door the last time he was there.
It is hard to convey how unready the thing we call our Army is for a standup fight against a peer that is better armed and equipped than they are. I have trouble imagining how they are going to set up a C2 or C4I node now without inviting instant obliteration and YOU KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO DO IT ANYWAY. Just like you know that THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE THEIR DAMNED CELL PHONES INTO invisible C4I nodes.
I flatter myself that I cracked that code as an Ensign on my first ship which happened to be the Middle East Flagship abroad in the Persian Gulf at the height of the Tanker War. I was though, the only line officer in the Engineering Department and the men that were my peers in that department were all old Warrant Officers, Limited Duty Officers and Chiefs and Senior Chiefs. I made a real effort to be like them and in return they helped me try to understand everything. It didn't hurt that one of my colaterals was ship's legal officer and peering into that darkness from the proper angle. And then you wonder, "self, why are doing all the ship's / Force's business in port here in Bahrain through that good offices of that crook who would be a horsethief anywhere else" and slowing perceiving all the reasons for just exactly why we did things that way.
It was all fascinating....did I mention another colateral of mine on that ship was the Wardroom Mess Treasurer and I was sitting on the largest stash of booze then in the Fleet? :)
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