Above or Below Ground Nuclear Warhead Testing Blog by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I read a real or fake news online article also known as post claiming the United States may start above or more likely below ground testing of nuclear weapons. This is my two cents worth of advice to our Commander-in-Chief President Donald J. Trump.

Dear President Trump,

I wonder if we, the United States of North America, want to get into the actual nuclear testing quagmire anytime soon. I believe that the nuclear physicists and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are able with the assistance of supercomputers to virtually test a nuclear warhead of standard design and implementation. These simulations are, I understand, very realistic, rigorous, and render factual results. However, if we have new and very novel designs and builds for low yield thermonuclear devices, we may need to do some sort of physical underground  testing. I do not think that our great chemist and a strong proponent of the 1965, 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Nobel Laureate twice Dr. Linus Pauling, PhD, would approve of the United States abrogating that long standing treaty.

Sincerely,

James Pate Williams, Jr.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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