THINKLINIC

Tag: engineering

  • The Cowardice of the Anti-Nuclear Consensus

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    Ada Koca
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    Nuclear energy killed fewer people than coal. That sentence should end the debate, but it never does, and the reason it never does is the first thing worth examining. Chernobyl is not a memory for my generation. Fukushima unfolded when we were children, and whatever appeared on television left no trace most of us can…

  • The Weapon That Outran Human Judgment

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    Ada Koca
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    The Cold War’s “Mutually Assured Destruction” no longer works. You fire a nuclear missile, the other side sees it in thirty minutes, retaliates, and those thirty minutes kept diplomacy alive. Hypersonic weapons shattered that arithmetic: five times the speed of sound, unpredictable trajectory, five to ten minutes of warning. Existing defense systems cannot see them.…