This selection is a shift from a tradition in which the people who served as Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration typically had deep technical roots or experience in the nation’s atomic complex. Mr. Williams’ experience in the knotty intricacies of how the weapons work and how they are kept reliable for decades without ever being ignited have never been established or presented by Mr. Williams.
Mr. Williams congressional biography says he earned a bachelors from Pepperdine in liberal arts, and later an MBA from the Wharton School, a contrast with the advanced degrees in physics or engineering that typically dot the résumés of weaponeers who end up in senior positions of the nation’s atomic complex.
Didn’t they put former Texas Governor Rick Perry in charge of the Energy Dept which oversees the nuclear weapons production facilities? He’s hardly a Physics major.
No you can not destroy another nation without destroying all.
Set off a few of them and within a month you will perish on the other side of this mortal spring. You won’t want your life things will be so intolerable.
When the refueling aircraft run out of fuel for Air Force One and she touches down all on board will have stage 4 cancer. Hours later all of them shall pass as well.
This is not a logic game.
The assured mutual destruction is coming from my BIL an MIT Professor of physics Emeritus. He has been involved with Los Alamos, colliders, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion projects since the 1970s. He has served in many committee functions. He has been a dean at MIT. Currently he is on a team trying to explain dark matter. He does not expect that explanation within his lifetime.
I have a theory of antimatter but he does not buy it. Someone is wrong.
It had never occured to me there is a word for that, thanks.
Personally, I suspected Corporatocracy to be closest term (with an army of lobb… I mean, loyalists running it), but when looking through Wiki’s sub options
Crony capitalism, in which corporations obtain favors and privileges from the state in exchange for funding or political support
Connivance capitalism, in which corporations collude with each other to form oligopolies or cartels, limiting competition and influencing market rules
Authoritarian capitalism, in which corporations ally themselves with repressive or anti-democratic political regimes, benefiting from protection and impunity
Inverted totalitarianism, theorized by professor Sheldon Wolin, a system where economic powers like corporations exert subtle but substantial power over a system that superficially seems democratic (see also Guided democracy and Post-democracy).
I thought you were all about meritocracy. You know, putting the most qualified people in positions. It’s weird that you’re willing to sell out that ideal. Kinda makes all your anti-DEI comments seem silly.
These guys are billionaire VC capitalists.
In this YT, the first hour, they contend that current CA, LA and SF governance is a Kakistocracy.
They further contend that the incoming, new mayor of San Francisco is a man with real world experience successfully running a large, multifaceted entity.
They contend that only by removing the current Kakistocracy of science and social governance experts, and bringing in “business leaders” can CA, LA n SF “recover” in any reasonable time frame.
That’s THEIR BIAS.
They are on a first name basis with the PayPal mafia. And are part of that “crew”.
How is this germaine to this topic/thread?
One of the original podcast members has stepped away from the podcast to work closely with TIG administration.
Podcast members are regularly conferring with TIG.
(They also conferred with TOG).
Money has access.
The incoming US VP is a protegee of the “PayPal mafia” group, and gained VC experience under their tutelage.
The podcast members claim that rather than “scientific or social governance experts” in government leadership roles, “we” need people with proven leadership skills.
That’s THE BIAS I think I see behind the choices being presented for Secretary, n other roles.
On a collider note, TX had the Texas Super Conducting Super Collider project:
It began in the 1980s, and was officially canceled in 1993.
From the Wikipedia above:
{. Reactions to the cancellation
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Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in Physics, placed the cancellation of the SSC in the context of a bigger national and global socio-economic crisis, including a general crisis in funding for science research and for the provision of adequate education, healthcare, transportation and communication infrastructure, and criminal justice and law enforcement.[4. }
While the names and situations have changed, we are still lamenting these same “lack of funds” excuses, today, on this board.
Brandon Williams is not qualified to be head of the NNSA. You’re making excuses on why that doesn’t matter. Not very meritocratic of you. This conflicts sharply with your past anti-DEI comments.
This comment is bonkers. What was broken by having people with deep technical experience in charge of our nuclear missle and naval power systems? Change isn’t always progress.
He could’ve nominated a 12 year old and y’all with TDS would say it’s progress. Bonkers.
Why was the haberdasher the right man to drop the bomb and not the experts who made the bombs? Because the haberdasher was elected by “We, the People.” The experts were not elected. Department heads need to be more political than technical to better represent the will of “We, the People.”
ish puzzle.