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You Might Want to Know: III. What’s a SIOP? (Answer: A Nuclear War Plan) How Might Ours Have Turned Out to Be Different Than It Did?

II. You Might Want to Know: What’s a SIOP? (Answer: A nuclear war plan.) How did ours change during the Cold War?

You Might Want to Know: What’s a SIOP? (Answer: A nuclear war plan.) How did ours change during the Cold War? I

You Might Want to Know: What is the difference between a “counterforce” and a “countervalue” attack with nuclear weapons?

You Might Want to Know: How do we keep Unauthorized Persons from setting off our nuclear weapons?

You Might Want to Know: Past Postings and Forthcoming Items to November 28, 2021

A Necessary Retargeting

XV. ICBMs Arriving - Aftermath

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving -XIV. Intimacy

You Might Want to Know - XIII. ICBMs Arriving - Through the Doors

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - XII. Starting Down

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - XI. Entry

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - X. Down Into the Heart of It

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IX. False Start

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - VIII. "Survivability"

You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - VII. What Happens When The Warheads Get Where They Are Going

ICBMs Arriving: VI. What are “re-entry vehicles”? Why do we need them? How do they work? What are MIRVs? How do they work?

You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - V. What Were the Things They Carried?

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving - IV. We Weren't Done Yet

You Might Want to Know: Matters Addressed So Far and Forthcoming Items

You Might Want to Know - ICBMs Arriving, III. Becoming Rotten with Perfection, The Minuteman III

You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - II. Minuteman is Stood Up and Titan II Too

You Might Want to Know: ICBMs Arriving - I. Atlas Goes on Alert with Titan Close Behind

You Might Want to Know: How accurate are our guided missiles? Part Two

You Might Want to Know: How accurate are our guided missiles? Part One

How long would it take missiles other than ICBMs to arrive?

You Might Want to Know: How long would it take an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to get from here to there?

You Might Want to Know: How have we kept our nuclear weapons from going off by accident? Part Two

You Might Want to Know: How have we kept our nuclear weapons from going off by accident? Part One

The Fallout Chronicles XI: What is Freedom For?

The Fallout Chronicles X - Where Does This Leave us?

The Fallout Chronicles IX - Is There a Threshold?

The Fallout Chronicles VIII - Compensation Begins

The Fallout Chronicles VII - The Evidence Mounts and Efforts are Made to Suppress It

The Fallout Chronicles VI - Evidence Emerges

The Fallout Chronicles V - Fallout Shelters Are Pushed

The Fallout Chronicles IV - Fallout Escapes Containment

The Fallout Chronicles III - Fallout Gets Tested on Our Soldiers

The Fallout Chronicles II - Fallout Gets a Name

The Fallout Chronicles I - First Observed Effects

You Might Want to Know: What’s “fallout”?  

You Might Want to Know: What’s the difference between a “clean” nuclear bomb and a “dirty” one?

What is ionizing radiation? Can it harm us? What does it have to do with nuclear weapons? (Part Three)

You Might Want to Know: What is ionizing radiation? Can it hurt us? How? What does it have to do with nuclear weapons? (Part Two)

You Might Want to Know: What is ionizing radiation? Can it hurt us? How? What does it have to do with nuclear weapons? (Part One)

At War in the Cold War--Managing a Tactical Nuclear Weapon

You Might Want to Know: Can nuclear weapons be used as "tactical" weapons?

Questions Addressed So Far and Forthcoming

You Might Want to Know: What’s the difference between “strategic” and “tactical” nuclear weapons?

You Might Want to Know: How were our nuclear weapons “miniaturized”?

You Might Want to Know: How Big Can They Get?

You Might Want to Know: How are fusion and fission bombs different? Why are fusion bombs so much more powerful?

You Might Want to Know: Did any of our Presidents ever witness a nuclear detonation?

You Might Want to Know: Where have we conducted nuclear tests? What for?

You Might Want to Know: How many nuclear tests have we conducted?

You Might Want to Know: What’s the other fissile fuel? (Answer: Plutonium) How is it made?

You Might Want to Know: How is uranium enriched today?

You Might Want to Know: How did we enrich the uranium for Little Boy?

You Might Want to Know: When it came to making the first atomic bomb, what was the hardest part?

Questions Addressed So Far and Forthcoming Items

You Might Want to Know: Can nuclear reactors explode?

You Might Want to Know: What's the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear reactor?

You Might Want to Know: What, exactly, is nuclear fission? When was it discovered? What does it do?

You Might Want to Know: What did J. Robert Oppenheimer say after the first successful test of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945? What did it mean?

You Might Want to Know: Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs the same or different?

You Might Want to Know: Where I Come Out

You Might Want to Know: What Got This Business Going For Me

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