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CatalinaWOW:
I can't pretend to understand why American foreign policy over the last 30 years has been what it is.  Inertia certainly is one factor, but I am sure there are many others.  Leaving Europe alone has a many century history being a problem for the neighbors.  Hubris, thinking of ourselves as ruling the world is another.  The list goes on and on.

I can sit here and point out lots of ways we could have done it better, but it wasn't my job, and wasn't a job I would have taken on under any circumstances.  And the people I voted for that I thought would have done a better job either didn't win, or didn't live up to my expectations.

Oh, and I was referring to the fact that the warfare currently is much hotter than any time during the Soviet era, and is in real danger of heating up more.  None of the three major general outcomes of the heavy fighting in Ukraine bode well for the future (Complete Russian success in Ukraine, continued high intensity stalemate, or complete Ukrainian victory).
AVGresponding:

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--- Quote from: magic on December 29, 2023, 03:42:02 am ---It's always been Eastern Europe (and South, I guess?) which had to deal with external enemies.
For the last thousand years the only enemies of Westerners were themselves, and overseas bushmen here and there.

They don't get it. Ruskies scared them for a while, but they thought the Cold War was over.

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The '"Cold" part is.

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Really? The Americans don't seem to have got the message. They've continued manipulating things in Europe since the USSR fell, like that event never happened.

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You imagine they are alone in this?
coppice:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on December 30, 2023, 12:16:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppice on December 29, 2023, 04:54:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on December 29, 2023, 04:31:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on December 29, 2023, 03:42:02 am ---It's always been Eastern Europe (and South, I guess?) which had to deal with external enemies.
For the last thousand years the only enemies of Westerners were themselves, and overseas bushmen here and there.

They don't get it. Ruskies scared them for a while, but they thought the Cold War was over.

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The '"Cold" part is.

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Really? The Americans don't seem to have got the message. They've continued manipulating things in Europe since the USSR fell, like that event never happened.

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You imagine they are alone in this?

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Did I suggest they were? Every government in the world is perpetually trying to screw every other government to the maximum extent they think they can get away with. Its what makes the dynamics of things like the EU such a joke.
Andy Chee:
Oppenheimer seems to be a winner at the Golden Globes awards.

Then again, those who vote at the Golden Globes are a different species of critic to science & technology enthusiasts (they're entertainment media journalists).
LaserSteve:
Nixe Tube invention is credited to 1955 or so.
So why is there a Nixie clock countdown at Trinity?
Because it looked cool for the movie?

Saw that  on Youtube and gave up on watching the rest of the movie.  Am I the only person on the planet that caught that detail? 

For those folks debating Bridgewires, Mound Lab, here in Ohio, was bragging about diode laser pumped,  fiber optic detonator development long ago. Much easier to sync.
Mound was being closed at the time, so it's various divisions were looking for ways to survive.
Hence the news articles on Fiber Optic Detonators.

Krytrons were always dangled as bait to catch the un-weary. Contrary to popular belief, they are not that difficult to make, if your nation has/had a domestic lighting or vacuum tube industry.

"Whizzer"
 neutron generator designs have been published The tube has its own gate/trigger electrode, so let's despell the myth that triggering it requires some sort of mystical HV sync circuit.

Ref: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/article-abstract/70/1/1104/444254/Compact-neutron-generator-for-diagnostic?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Those who ignore technological history are bound to claim it's redevelopment.

Steve


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