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Chemical weapons are a lot easier to make than nuclear ones. I've heard them called "The Poor Man's Atom Bomb" for precisely that reason. The problem is they work about as well as a poor man's attempt at making an atom bomb. One of the funniest, in a make you cry kinda of way, that I have seen in t...

I once said to John (in an email) that I expected "every last nuke" to kill five or six billion people, and that would abort the Singularity. John replied that even if that many died, it would leave one or two billion to continue on to reach the Singularity. Well, maybe...I don't know. But WWIII+Sin...

The Singularity is starting to show up in Science Fiction. I have just read The Complete Atopia Chronicles by Matthew Mather (available for a limited time half-price on Kindle). The "Crisis of 2020" turns out to be a massive cyberattack which collapses the infrastructure for several weeks in a bitte...

7 Deadly Scenarios by Andrew F. Krepinevich (2009) depicts 7 ways the "pot starts to boil". The chapters lay the background of the flashpoint, explore a scenario of it going critical, and end asking "what next". The chapters are: 1 The Collapse of Pakistan 2 War Comes to America 3 Pandemic 4 Armaged...

Something Strauss & Howe predicted to have occurred by now is the Great Devaluation. Was this the 2008 Crisis, or has it not occurred yet? What are your views?

So it looks like Europe will kick the can down the road yet again.
John, I once asked you why we cannot kick the can down the road forever. You replied that evemtually, you run out of road.
How will we know when we are reaching the end of the road in Europe?

Stopping 90% of 3,000 nukes means 300 mushroom clouds on American soil.

John: I don't know the best place for this thread...move it if you like. For those homelanders and younger millennials who don't remember the beginning of our current Crisis, the recent death of Osama Bin Laden and the upcoming decade anniversary have inspired me to post this, so you could see how i...