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Richard Badalamente writes fiction and non-fiction on a variety of topics ranging from speculative fiction, and espionage, to science and technology, research, and alternative futures. He is a former US Air Force officer, and was a senior analyst with the National Security Directorate of a US government National Laboratory, where his focus was nuclear nonproliferation, counterintelligence, and counter terrorism.
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An Unexpected Error
http://anunexpectederror.blogspot.com/
Richard Badalamente was a senior analyst with a Department of Energy national laboratory. His focus was nuclear nonproliferation, counterintelligence, and counter terrorism. He was assigned to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1990-92, where he authored the 1991-95 Strategic Plan for Safeguards, and assisted the IAEA in evaluating the safeguards implications of events in Iraq. In late 2002, he was detailed to the Pentagon to assist in planning for Operation Iraqi freedom. He is now a writer living in Kennewick, Washington.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 270 )
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A Primer on Fossil Fuels and Their Impact on Earth's Oceans
OCEANS AND FOSSIL FUELSFrom the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2024 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
EARTH DAY: Our Goldilocks Planet
My Nono and Nona emigrated from small villages in the province of Trapani in southwestern Sicily in 1898. My wife and I visited the region between Christmas... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2024 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Hindsight is 20/20
Down goes Saddam October 10, 2006Andy ____________, COL, USMC (Ret.)One postage stamp away, USA Dear Andy; Objecting to my criticism (constant, I’m afraid) of... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2024 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Darker Past
Broadway 6th, Los Angeles, 1956Part I. GROWING UP IN LOS ANGELESI was born in Los Angeles in 1938. My dad, and mom, and brother and I lived in a little... Read more
Posted on 22 February 2024 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Further Media Consolidation a Bad Idea
Nearly six decades ago the question of America’s media; newspapers, radio, and an emerging television broadcast medium, came before the Supreme Court in a case... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2023 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Ignorance of the Extreme Risk Protection Order Law May Be Fatal
Most people have heard the expression, ignorantia juris non excusat, although perhaps not in Latin. Broadly translated it means, "ignorance of the law is no... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2023 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Video on Treating Back Pain with Various Categorioes of Medication
Michelangelo Buonarroti - Drawings If you suffer from more or less constant back pain, as I do, you may find this video on how to treat the pain helpful. Read more
Posted on 20 June 2023 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Salmon Are Going Extinct and We Won't Be Far Behind
Coho salmon, here in full vivid spawning colors. One of many species of wild Pacific salmon in danger of extinction. (Jessica Newley)I remember when I was... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2022 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Jon Phillips Comments on an Op-Ed by Fareed Zakaria on the Israeli -...
In a Washington Post opinion piece, Fareed Zakaria argues that, "Israel doesn’t have any practical reasons to make a deal with the Palestinians." It doesn’t fea... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A New Endowment Established at Columbia Basin Colleg Celebrating Earth Day 2021
Earth Day this year is April 22 To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and avoid catastrophic climate change we need to act with far greater urgency than w... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
An Orphanage in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Orphan Asylum My wife's father, Bernard Joseph O'Brien, was a "half orphan." At age 7 his mother, Margaret, was forced to place Bernard and his older... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
What Started as a Brief Facebook Video Chat Between Richard Badalamente and Jon...
Richard Jon, In our video chat yesterday I think I mentioned Historian Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the book, "Sapiens," and more recently, "Homo Deus: A... Read more
Posted on 25 March 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
March 4, 2021
From the March 4, 2021, Issue of the Washington Post On the day when former president Donald Trump’s most delusional supporters swore he would return to power... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Sen. Patty Murray Responds to My Letter Regarding President Trump's...
Dear Dr. Badalamente, Thank you for contacting me regarding the transfer of power between President Donald J. Trump and President-Elect Joseph R. Biden. I come... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
To Further Divide the Country
Charlottesville "Unite the Right"Republican Senate and House members, Republican politicians generally, conservative pundits appearing on the “fair and balanced... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Sedition
President Donald J. Trump speaking at his "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington D.C., January 6, 2021.On January 6, 2021, Donald J. Read more
Posted on 08 January 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Welcoming 2021 [and Everything That Comes with It]
Happy New Year!I’m not sorry to see 2020 go — you? On the other hand, I’m not expecting to dance in the streets welcoming 2021 (that would be exhausting),... Read more
Posted on 01 January 2021 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
We Have the Technology -- Do We Have the Political Will?
Discourse of Climate Delay (art by Léonard Chemineau, based on the diagram below) by Jon PhillipsCommercial technologies currently exist that can transform the... Read more
Posted on 24 December 2020 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Accountability for Politicization of Science? Lysenkoism in the U.S.
by Natalka Poltavka* "Working hard will give you a good farm," USSR collective farming, 1947It took 97 days from the outbreak of the first Covid-19 case in the... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2020 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
The Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack killed 2,403 U.S. personnel, including 68... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2020 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY