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Researchers devise a zero-knowledge proof for nuke inspection

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Jun

2014

Nuclear weapons inspection poses a dilemma: how do you train inspectors to identify nukes without revealing top-secret information about how to build them? Spreading detailed nuclear weapons knowledge goes against the principle of non-proliferation, and many countries would object to letting inspectors from a body like the United Nations dig around inside their war technology. […]

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Why we shouldn’t worry that our nuclear weapons are run by ancient, out-of-date tech

01

May

2014

So it turns out that America’s nuclear weapons system still uses the same 8-inch floppy disks that it used in the 1980s. Geek.com has a good rundown of why we shouldn’t be too concerned about this revelation and it basically boils down to this: Our system for controlling our nuclear arsenal isn’t broke and trying to fix […]

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Soviet-era nuclear warheads provide 10 percent of US electricity

11

Dec

2013

For the past 20 years, bomb-grade uranium from Russias decommissioned nuclear weapons have provided 10 percent of all the electricity the US consumes. That fact, NPR reports, is the result a deal made after the fall of the Soviet Union, which allowed for 20,000 bombs worth of nuclear material to be repurposed for American power […]

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