A reminder for everyone: on this day in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
It occurs to me this time around that there's an interesting relationship here - 9/26 is forgotten, while 9/11 is remembered. Do something charitable, and not patriotic, sometime today.
Yeah, that 1 percent are pretty screwed.
That doesn't pass the sniff test. 50 Hiroshima-sized airbusts cause massive climate change, yet 528 above-ground nuclear tests, some with 1000 times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb, and many being ground bursts, had no observable effect?