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Scott LaFoy

@wslafoy.bsky.social
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Open Source Analysis of ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, BMD, DPRK, & PRC. Vice President of Nuclear and Technology Security Programs, Exiger. Making podcasts over at www.armscontrolwonk.com All opinions my own.

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
[taps mic] FOOOOOOOOBBBBBBSSSSSSSS
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Skeleton Guy Turns Into Skeleton: Tweaking
ALT: Skeleton Guy Turns Into Skeleton: Tweaking
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Texting "test a nuke, get a pod" back to 2017 so my past self can have a meltdown
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I have such good news for you
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available. We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is a hell of a way to wake up on Wednesday. Good morning @gbrumfiel.bsky.social! For DOE, as the inheritors of the promotion side of the AEC equation, rulemaking for their orders has always been a little a little different and less subject to public comment than NRC. But, uhh, not like this.
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
If you want the full story of Franklin just look at my next tweet! It's an epic tale of blimps, balloons and nuclear weapons🧵
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
It's June 2, which means it's the anniversary of the 1957 Franklin Shot fizzle from Operation Plumbbob, which is really only of note because of its extreme @gbrumfiel.bsky.social oriented content commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I guess it's that time of year again!
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Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
New article by my colleagues @ohnemax.bsky.social and @kadyshev.bsky.social on the utility of Arrow 3 against Russian ICBM, IRBM, MRBM and SRBM. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/8AV5B...
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Analyzing the Utility of Arrow 3 for European Missile Defense Using Footprint Calculations
After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, missile defense systems became more prominent and sought after on a global scale. In 2023, Germany decided to purchase the Israeli Arrow ...
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This is the proper way to make it through January, although the lack of Lao Gan Ma is concerning
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
incredible
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Not the most photogenic, but extremely solid flavor
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Vanilla saffron is a really interesting combo I've never heard before!
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Attempting some Georgian dishes from the Supra cookbook for NYE. Eggplant with seasoned walnut paste (nigvziani badrijani) and adjaruli khachapuri, plus some salmon with capers (not pictured) as an appetizer. With a lil champagne/mimosa. Happy new year, friends. Hopefully better than 2024
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
googling "FedRAMP kanban software" and feeling the last of my youth slip away
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It is important to understand the relationship between Kanto and the world beyond via the seder ninetailshelut
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The other phrase I used on Twitter was "Judeo-Ketchum Arithmancy" but I'm not sure bluesky is ready for such concepts
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Twitter is doing Abrahamic-Pokemon Numerology on the assassin
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
That's obviously his health bar
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Went to Sandia 75 Anniversary temp exhib at Nuclear Museum (NMNSH) today. full picset to flickr/nuclearanthro soon. Some initial thoughts: Sole mention AFAICT of past & ongoing links of NMNSH as Sandia’s museum is an (AFAICT) UNLABELLED(?!?) plaque from 1973. #NukeSky 1/n #DissertationWriting
A blue shield shaped logo with, in darker blue & capital letters,word “sandia” on top, word “atomic” on left 
(Printed vertically with left as “bottom”) and “museum” on right (printed vertically with bottom as right ). In middle of shield & between the words is a smaller shield shape of dark blue with a white mushroom
cloud with a stylized atomic symbol in red at its base.

The logo which seems made of painted wood perhaps is set on a dark wooden plaque with a bronze-ish metal square inlaid at bottom left. It is inscribed with the following:

SANDIA ATOMIC MUSEUMFOUNDATION
GEORGE L. DOOLITTLE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
18 JULY 1975
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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Russia's Defense Ministry has released photos of what it says is wreckage from U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, fired by Ukraine into Kursk Oblast November 23-25 (Khalino airfield was one site that was targeted)
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Sébastien Roblin @sebastienroblin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Last week Russia made first combat use of a strategic nuclear missile and its MIRV submunition, thankfully without nuclear warheads. Read on to learn the likely familiar origin of the allegedly new Oreshnik missile, claimed concept of use and why ambiguity as to its IRBM vs. ICBM class is baked in.
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Russia Says It Fired an Unprecedented New Type of Hypersonic Missile for the First Time Ever
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the weapon was developed very rapidly, hyping it up as an unstoppable hypersonic precision-strike weapon.
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I believe that is correct, and is consistent with my notes (which have admittedly not fully kept up with the last couple years).
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
oh heck yes
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If there was ever a topic to be nitpicky on, this is it lol
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I believe this is correct, but I'm going to review my notes and also ping @dexeve.bsky.social MRBMs, definitely. Houthis have been launching MRBMs as recently as October this year. IRBMs, I can't think of offhand, and definitely not for IRBMs actually fired at IRBM-ranges.
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I think it may! That's where I'd need to do more digging. Was the idea meant to be more nuclear? I think you're correct, Geoff and I were also DM'ing about whether Tomahawk and ancient OG Scud counted
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I love this specific iteration of this meme because it is one of the most *accurate* while still being funny. It has a solid amount of implicit commentary built into it without just making things up or going totally insane with the Radical boxes. Art.
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is unironically one of my favorite versions of this meme
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"primarily designed to carry nuclear weapons used" as a conventional weapon in combat is an interesting phrase. That makes me want to do some digging...
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Grant W. Trent @grantwtrent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Katie Mummah @nuclearkatie.com · 13/11/2024
Although there are a few crossovers, my starter pack is much more focused on nuclear energy than nuclear nonproliferation or nuclear weapons than @cherylrofer.bsky.social's. But you should follow that one too! go.bsky.app/7nJsY2F
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of their time working with the nuclear energy industry and nuclear supply chains, this list (and Katie's general social media presence!) is really, really useful for keeping up with the sector.
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Katie Mummah @nuclearkatie.com · 13/11/2024
Interested in nuclear energy, with a side of other nuclear science topics like health physics and nonproliferation? Here's my starter pack! go.bsky.app/NGW4Abq
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Santa Fe this time!
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Santa Fe this time, but always looking for good food along that axis.
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Podcasts are published, dogs are walked, time to prepare for my upcoming (quick) work trip to the greatest state in the Union. Food recs always welcome. Tia B's La Waffleria is obviously the top.
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
New Arms Control Wonk ep up! The legendary Fred Kaplan joins @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social to talk about his new novel, A Capital Calamity, a Jane-Austin-Meets-Dr.-Strangelove comedy of DC manners & etiquette, in the fraught world of consultants & consequences. Tune in. patreon.com/posts/114390346
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Check your notifications again in about 15 minutes :D
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Hey Cheryl!! Thanks, trying to slowly come back onto social media (and not the garbage place, in particular)
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a black and white photo of a vampire with long claws .
ALT: a black and white photo of a vampire with long claws .
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Double header Arms Control Wonk podcast today! @dexeve.bsky.social and @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social met up to talk about the PLARF's Pacific ICBM test and the ROK's new massive missile on parade. patreon.com/posts/114363931 www.patreon.com/posts/big-ho...
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The Big Honking Hyunmoo-V | Arms Control Wonk
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NK News @nknewsorg.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
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North Korea appears to confirm existence of second uranium enrichment plant
The uranium enrichment plant where North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently inspected new centrifuges is likely a covert facility near Pyongyang long suspected of being a nuclear site, according to analysis by the Open Source Team at the James Martin…
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Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
GOOD CHRIST ALMIGHTY do NOT try to geolocate kidnapped Israeli civilians and post about it are you out of your FUCKING MIND
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
you n'wah
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Decker Eveleth @dexeve.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Alright, which one of you is responsible for this. I know you're here. @wslafoy.bsky.social?
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
If you replaced one of the portraits with Dagoth Ur then I'd swear it's @schmerler.bsky.social
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
that would explain her love of picnic baskets and animosity towards strangers
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Scott LaFoy @wslafoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
may need to get an opinion from @darthbluesky.bsky.social on if these dog reactions are legitimate or unwarranted.
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