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Maplewood History: If You Can’t Tell A Bollard From A Guard Stone…

3 years 3 months ago
Well, neither can I sometimes.  I have been considering doing this post for quite awhile because I had become convinced, wrongly as I now know, that the Scheidt Hardware building, originally the Maplewood Theater, had cast iron bollards on each of the front corners. To begin, I have no idea how long vehicles with wheels […]
Doug Houser

Sure, nuclear secrets, but what kind of nuclear secrets?

3 years 3 months ago
The news of the day is that, among other things, the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago turned up boxes of documents that contained "nuclear" secrets classified at stratospherically high levels. But what kind of nuclear secrets? Nobody knows, of course, but I started getting curious about what the broad possibilities were. Here's a back-of-the-envelope list: Engineering/design ...continue reading "Sure, nuclear secrets, but what kind of nuclear secrets?"
Kevin Drum