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arms-control

8 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 3 claims, 1 observation, 1 question, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the same faint gas
  essay draft 2026-07-28 · arms-control, nonproliferation, verification-methods, medical-isotopes, ctbto

Everything else

• Reconstructed in public, unconfirmed in fact — the Burevestnik, rebuilt from open physics down to a detectable signature no one has been able to check
  topic map 2026-08-19 · burevestnik, osint, nuclear, reactor-physics, arms-control
• CTBTO monitoring stations positioned along the Nyonoksa accident's modeled plume path stopped transmitting data, and a senior Russian official's own remarks suggest this was not a technical malfunction
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · nuclear, missile, burevestnik, ctbto, verification
• CTBTO's radioxenon network for detecting nuclear tests is confounded by civilian medical-isotope production, whose emissions 'look similar to those of a nuclear explosion' — across a network that registers ~18,000 xenon samples a year
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · arms-control, nonproliferation, verification-methods, medical-isotopes, ctbto
• A US NNSA nonproliferation program converted the world's major medical-isotope (Mo-99) producers off weapons-usable HEU targets to low-enriched uranium
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-security, medical-isotopes, heu-leu, arms-control
• Two contrasting verification regimes — remote radionuclide sensing and reciprocal on-site inspection — govern the same fissile-material lifecycle
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · arms-control, verification-methods, nonproliferation, nuclear-history, cross-domain-bridge
• Does a primary source document the specific reciprocal on-site monitoring under Megatons to Megawatts — Russian monitors at Portsmouth/Paducah, US monitors at Seversk/Ozersk/Novouralsk/Zelenogorsk?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · nonproliferation, nuclear-history, verification-methods, arms-control, primary-sources
• Cold War warhead uranium and hospital radioisotopes compete for the same arms-control verification apparatus
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · arms-control, nonproliferation, nuclear-history, medical-isotopes, verification-methods