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GZDRefugee

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FriedButter said:
If you used any other source then you would have noticed the Plutonium Reduction Treaty was suspended 9 years ago in 2016 by the Russians.



Or the more obvious reason is that the nuclear START treaty is set to expire in less than 4 months. No nuclear limitation treaty. No reason to continue disposing nuclear material for weapons.

All because the Americans are demanding China be included so they can minimize the Chinese nuclear threat to a few hundred nuclear weapons while maximizing their several thousand nuclear arsenal against China.

In other words, the Americans are angry they can no longer win a nuclear war against China.
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Interesting observation from my recent trip to China: underground parking garages and subways have all been renovated with THICK blast resistant doors. Every business center, mall, apartment building complex, subway station is also a bunker.
 
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Exactly. This is why China needs a Japan bomber not some ridiculous CONUS bomber.
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Well, I don't think China is lacking in strike capabilities in range of Japan.

More important is the ability to blockade the Japan islands, US can't use Japan as a strike platform if they can't supply it, and Japan itself will be forced to capitulate as they are heavily dependent on material import from food to energy.

To that end the new UUVs + intelligent mines would be very useful indeed.
 
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When you boils it, Alfred Nobel contributed nothing to science himself and his entire spiel was using money he made from explosives to insert his own name into other people's achievement and improve his own image
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We are still using Nobel's inventions in everyday life. His contribution is immense.
 
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We are still using Nobel's inventions in everyday life. His contribution is immense.
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Millions wouldn't be alive without synthetic insulin yet here we are right? Millions who literally owe their lives to China instead hate China. I think remembering the fact that the Nobel Prize is a private prize with subjective criteria funded by an explosives merchant is much less severe.
 
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858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire​

South Korea’s government may have permanently lost 858TB of information after a crucial hard drive was destroyed in a fire at a data center in Daejeon.

As reported by DCD, a battery fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center, located in the city of Daejeon, on September 26, has caused havoc for government services in Korea.

Goodbye G-Drive?
Work to restore the data center is ongoing, but officials fear data stored on the government’s G-Drive may be gone for good.

G-Drive, which stands for Government Drive and is not a Google product, was used by government staff to keep documents and other files. Each worker was allocated 30GB of space.

According to a report from The Chosun, the drive was one of 96 systems completely destroyed in the fire, and there is no backup.

“The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity,” an unnamed official told The Chosun. “The remaining 95 systems have backup data in online or offline forms.”

While some departmers do not rely on G-Drive, those that do have been badly impacted in the aftermath of the fire.

A source from the Ministry of Personnel Management said: “Employees stored all work materials on the G-Drive and used them as needed, but operations are now practically at a standstill.”

As of Saturday, only 115 of 647 affected networks had been restored, a recovery rate of 17.8 percent. A full recovery is expected to take a month. The government says it will offer alternatives to the most important services.
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“The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity,” an unnamed official told The Chosun.
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“Employees stored all work materials on the G-Drive and used them as needed, but operations are now practically at a standstill.”
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Wiping out the work documents of nearly 191,000 civil servants. The system had been allotted to nearly 191,000 government employees as at August. South Korea has 750,000 public sector officials nationwide.
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Was South Korea hoping they could save money by not building an backup system.
 
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German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters​

German industrial production fell back to 2005 levels in August as output in the country’s all-important car industry cratered by 18.5 per cent compared with the previous month.

The unexpectedly poor data comes as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet the bosses of the country’s carmakers on Thursday in Berlin to discuss the woes of the struggling sector. Merz has promised to reinvigorate the Eurozone’s biggest economy but has so far fallen flat.

Overall, industrial production fell 4.3 per cent in August compared with the previous month, seasonally adjusted data showed on Wednesday. Economists had predicted a smaller drop of 1 per cent in a Reuters poll.

Excluding short and temporary shocks during the global financial crisis and at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the data indicates industrial production is at the weakest level since 2005. It is almost 20 per cent below its pre-pandemic peak. Car production outside of those two crises is at the lowest level since 2000.

Industrial production was “dropping like a stone,” ING’s global head of macro Carsten Brzeski wrote in a note to clients, adding that the risk of Germany falling back into a technical recession with two consecutive quarters of GDP decline had increased.

Claus Vistesen, chief Eurozone economist at advisory firm Pantheon Macroeconomics, called the industrial data “ugly” but noted that one-off effects had distorted the figures slightly.

According to the German statistical office, the “sharp decline” in car production was in part caused by the later timing this year of annual closures at car plants for holidays, as well as production changeover.

But a profit warning by German carmaker BMW late on Tuesday was the latest reminder of the industry’s structural challenges as it struggles with the transition to battery cars, weak sales in China and US import duties.

Germany’s economy has been stuck in stagnation for more than three years.

Merz is trying to revive growth through a massive debt-funded public spending plan but the economy shrank 0.3 per cent in the second quarter as its export-dependent manufacturing sector reeled from global trade tensions.

“Today’s [industrial] figures are a further indication that the German economy hardly grew at all in the third quarter,” said Commerzbank economist Ralph Solveen.

The German government said on Wednesday that it expected increased domestic demand to drive improvements in the economy from next year.

It is now forecasting GDP to grow by 1.3 per cent in 2026 and 1.4 per cent in 2027, from 0.2 per cent this year. It had predicted in January 0.3 per cent growth this year and 1.1 per cent next year.

The more positive economic outlook “should not obscure the fact that a significant portion of growth in the coming years is likely to come from high government spending”, German economy minister Katherina Reiche said.

“But even this stimulus will only have an effect if investments are implemented quickly,” she added,
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Was South Korea hoping they could save money by not building an backup system.
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This is showing that much of the supposed "competent democratic honest governance" claimed by some group of countries is as about as real as the pandemic preparedness index.
 
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