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Russian Foreign Ministry statement today on Israel’s strikes on Iran. Irony is dead “Unprovoked military strikes on a sovereign UN member state, its citizens, sleeping peaceful cities, and nuclear energy infrastructure facilities are categorically unacceptable. The international

Very sorry to hear about Helen de Cruz's passing. Would highly recommend their book, "Wonderstruck." dailynous.com/2025/06/20/hel… press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Generally speaking, treaties and negotiations encourage countries to give up nuclear ambitions while military actions and threats make them dig in and determined. Compare 2025 bombing with 2015 JCPOA.

Thought-provoking and important read.

It’s the ultimate irony to have a copy of my good friend Bill Lanouette’s definitive biography of Leo Szilard on the bookshelf behind. Szilard was a peacemaker and humanist who believed negotiation and diplomacy were always the right solutions.

Superb analysis as usual.

This looks important to my naive eye.

Peak Dunning-Kruger

This is Jim Wilson of Livermore and supernova fame. The good old days.

This is a great take on what science is.

They also likely did not destroy the 400 kg of HEU that Iran possesses.

Freeman Dyson humblebragging with classic British understatement in a 1943 letter to his parents: “This morning I went for a six-mile walk before breakfast. It was a very pleasant walk; it poured with rain all the time.”

English translation of Hahn and Strassman's seminal paper on fission (January 1939) chemteam.info/Chem-History/H…

This email from Thiel is clearly old but even more poignant today for NYC of course. I suspect this will take on a cyclical nature: NYC may be entering into what SF was a few years ago, with ideas of being more permissive on crime and more socialist leanings. But that will

Both are terrific books. I first encountered Glasstone in college through his Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, and consider him the greatest technical writer I have encountered.