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Nuclear Weapons

Jaishankar to head for Sochi for talks with Chinese and Russian counterparts Nuclear Weapons

Jaishankar to head for Sochi for talks with Chinese and Russian counterparts

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is set to visit Sochi later this month for talks with his Chinese and Russian counterparts Wang Yi and Sergey Lavrov, which could range from the situation in Afghanistan to the danger to international security posed by the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)…
bubmag
March 7, 2020
Does Pakistan Or India Have The Better Army? Thanks To Nuclear Weapons, It Doesn’t Matter Nuclear Weapons

Does Pakistan Or India Have The Better Army? Thanks To Nuclear Weapons, It Doesn’t Matter

Key Point: The adversarial relationship between India and Pakistan makes the Indian subcontinent one of the most dangerous places on Earth.The Indian subcontinent is home to two of the largest armies on Earth. Not only are the armies of India and Pakistan both larger in personnel than the U.S. Army, but…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
See These Missiles? This Is How North Korea Could Attack with Nearly ‘No Warning’ Nuclear Weapons

See These Missiles? This Is How North Korea Could Attack with Nearly ‘No Warning’

Key point: The new super-large MLR extends the range and explosive force of Pyongyang’s existing non-nuclear arsenal.North Korea on Oct. 31, 2019 fired two rockets from its new “super-large” multiple rocket launch system, potentially escalating tension between Washington and Pyongyang as talks over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program stall out.The projectiles launched…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
AMD’s top supercomputer wins are a big moment in ‘heated competition’ Nuclear Weapons

AMD’s top supercomputer wins are a big moment in ‘heated competition’

Advanced Micro Devices executives argued Thursday at the company’s investor day that the chip maker is gaining ground on its competition, starting with two major wins for top supercomputer chip deals. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices, said that AMD beat out “heated competition” for the Lawrence…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump-Aligned Pressure Group Pushes to Stop Medicine Sales to Iran Nuclear Weapons

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump-Aligned Pressure Group Pushes to Stop Medicine Sales to Iran

Despite a massive coronavirus-related public health crisis, an anti-Iran pressure group with close ties to the Trump administration is urging major pharmaceutical companies to “end their Iran business,” focusing on companies with special licenses — most often under a broadly defined “humanitarian exemption” — to conduct trade with Iran. With…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
1963: Rachel Carson Nuclear Weapons

1963: Rachel Carson

There was a time when a book could change the world. Biologist and writer Rachel Carson’s early works about the ocean were besotted with life. But her fourth book, Silent Spring, was a searing indictment of synthetic ­pesticides—grim nerve agents for insects like DDT that she called “elixirs of death.”…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
North Korea’s Kim sends ‘get well soon’ wishes for South’s coronavirus battle Nuclear Weapons

North Korea’s Kim sends ‘get well soon’ wishes for South’s coronavirus battle

By Hyonhee ShinSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a letter expressing hope for South Korea to overcome a coronavirus outbreak, President Moon Jae-in's office said on Thursday, as the South battles the biggest epidemic of the disease outside China.The two sides' exchanges have ground nearly…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
AMD CPUs and GPUs will power the future world’s fastest supercomputer, 10x faster than current leader Nuclear Weapons

AMD CPUs and GPUs will power the future world’s fastest supercomputer, 10x faster than current leader

Something to look forward to: The 'El Capitan' supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be built with both AMD processors and GPUs. It is expected to pack more than 2 exaFLOPs of performance and will come online in early 2023. El Capitan will be a huge leap forward…
bubmag
March 4, 2020
AMD To Power “El Capitan” Super Computer From HPE’s Cray Nuclear Weapons

AMD To Power “El Capitan” Super Computer From HPE’s Cray

Last fall, as Cray was being acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for $1.6B, the company announced that it had been selected by the US DOE for two more exa-scale supercomputers based on the processor-agnostic Cray Shasta architecture. The Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL) El Capitan supercomputer, costing some $600M, and planned…
bubmag
March 4, 2020
El Capitan supercomputer to blow past its rivals, with 2 quintillion calculations per second Nuclear Weapons

El Capitan supercomputer to blow past its rivals, with 2 quintillion calculations per second

The El Capitan supercomputer, built by HPE's Cray supercomputing division with processors from AMD, should get to work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2023. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hewlett Packard Enterprise and AMD will deliver what they expect to be the world's fastest supercomputer in 2023, a $600 million machine…
bubmag
March 4, 2020