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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 ( 269 )
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ASA Statement on Climate Change
Adopted 11-30-07 by the ASA Board of DirectorsThe American Statistical Association (ASA) convened a workshop of leading atmospheric scientists and... Read more
Posted on 03 November 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Money in Politics
Are you passionate about protecting, repealing, reforming X, Y, Z? Good for you. Congress doesn’t care.A recent study found that little of what's done by the... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Ignorant of History and Determined to Repeat It
Yogi Berra died recently. He was a hall-of-fame baseball player for the New York Yankees -- an iconic figure in baseball -- but more than that, he was a guy... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Alexis De Tocqueville on Equality in America
Drawing of Alexis de Tocqueville by Theodore Chasseriau, December 31, 1843AMONG the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Abstinence Only Or Cancer -- The Republicans' False Dichotomy
There was a very interesting special on NOVA, PBS, last night dealing with vaccinations in America; their history, development, and some of the controversy... Read more
Posted on 28 August 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Pro-Life Republicans? Where?
Republicans will do absolutely nothing about gun violence in America. Republicans oppose paid maternity leave (the US is one of only 3 countries not to do so... Read more
Posted on 27 August 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
We Should Have Stayed In Iraq -- Oh, Really?!
Is Obama responsible for the rise of ISIS and the chaos and conflict raging in the Middle East? Republicans, especially the now unrepentant Jeb Bush, say Obama'... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Japan's Pacifist Constitution Obligates the United States
by John PhillipsThe reaction of Japan to its current situation is a potent example of the difficulties of nuclear disarmament. Read more
Posted on 12 August 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Iran Nuclear Deal: Letter to Rep Dan Newhouse, R-WA4
Vienna International Center, Home of the IAEA July 30, 2015The Honorable Dan NewhouseUnited States House of Representatives Dear Congressman Newhouse;I read wit... Read more
Posted on 31 July 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Snake Oil Salesmen
The last time I checked you can still buy your POM Wonderful at our local supermarkets. This despite the fact that a judge issued a ‘cease and desist,’... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
My Republican Friend Worries About the Federal Debt
My friend wrote:"I heard on the radio that the Congressional Budget Office has issued a dire warning about the USA's debt problem. Check it out (I don't have th... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Twenty-One Senate Republicans Voted Against the Senate Ban on Torture
Here are their names:Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a former U.S. attorney and state attorney generalTom Cotton of Arkansas, an Iraq War combat veteranMichael Crapo... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Brief History of the Road to Iraqi Ruin
by Jon Phillips When George Herbert Walker Bush and dozens of international partners collaborated to expel Iraq from Kuwait, the first Bush administration sough... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Thinking Machines -- The Key to Avoiding Disaster
by Jon PhillipsThinking machines, a traditional source of sci-fi tales of terror, have been more in the news recently. Eminent personalities in science and... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
American Exceptionalism: Part III
Part IPart IIIn Parts I II of this series on international aspects of American exceptionalism, I dealt with America's failure to ratify the Comprehensive... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Climate Migrants
The stories of the drowning deaths of what may be as many as 950 migrants in the Mediterranean is both tragic and frightening. Read more
Posted on 23 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
American Exceptionalism: Part II
The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), regulating the international trade in conventional arms -- from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
American Exceptionalism - Pt I
U.S. nuclear testing at the Pacific Proving Grounds in 1946. “Baker,” a 21 kiloton fission device, was detonated underwater on July 25. Read more
Posted on 18 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
America's Role in Advancing Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program
It may seem insensitive, even undiplomatic to remind those following today's debate over the Iran nuclear deal that United States provided nuclear assistance... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The IAEA "Additional Protocol" and Its Relevance in the Iran Nuclear Deal
Vienna International Center, Headquarters of the IAEAI served as what's called a "cost-free expert" at the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1990 to 1992. Read more
Posted on 07 April 2015 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY