Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Russia, Cold-War, Conventional Military Forces, Dependence, Era, Magnitude, Medvedev, Military Doctrine, moscow, Nuclear Arsenals, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear Force, Russia, Shape, Signs

The document says Russia reserves the right to use nuclear force in response to a nuclear attack or one of equivalent magnitude.
Russia’s conventional military forces are in dilapidated shape, increasing Moscow’s dependence on its Cold War-era nuclear arsenals.
Medvedev signs Russia’s military doctrine – washingtonpost.com

Top China Advisor Worried Over Nuclear-Armed N. Korea

Posted by Matt in October 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Koreas, Belief That, China, Chinese Government, Chinese Publication, Korean Peninsula, Launch, Magnitude, Military Superiority, North-Korea, Risk

In an alarming analysis in an official Chinese publication, a senior advisor to the Chinese government expects North Korea to launch a war on the South in the belief that it has overwhelming military superiority.
In the magazine, Zhang wrote that the world underestimates the magnitude of the risk on the Korean Peninsula.
Posted on 7/12/2009.

Top China [...]

The Mathematics of War

Posted by Matt in October 15th, 2009 | no comment

Published in War, Aln, Conflict, Discovery, Earthquakes, Fry, International Wars, Iraq War, Lewis Fry Richardson, Magnitude, Mathematics, Natural Logarithm, Physicist, Power Law Distribution, Probability, Richter Scale, Slope, War Video

In the video below Sean Gourely gives a talk about how the Iraq war and war in general follows the power law:
P(x) = Cx^-a
x = Number killed or size of attack (war)
P(x) = Probability that an attack (war) of size x or less will occur.
ln(P(x)) = ln(C) – aln(x)
ln = Natural Logarithm
If you plot this [...]

If China loses faith the dollar will collapse

Posted by Matt in May 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Financial, U.S., Assets, Banking System, China, Collapse, Countries, Dollar, Emerging Economies, Faith, Federal Reserve, Foreign Exchange Reserves, Households, inflation, Leverage, Liberal Policy, Magnitude, Money Supply, Reserve Currency, Russia

Emerging economies such as China and Russia are calling for alternatives to the dollar as a reserve currency. The trigger is the Federal Reserve’s liberal policy of expanding the money supply to prop up America’s banking system and its over-indebted households. Because the magnitude of the bad assets within the banking system and the excess [...]

Israeli authorities warn hospitals to prepare for earthquake

Posted by Matt in June 30th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Israel, Decades, Destructive Earthquake, Director General, Earthquake, Education Officials, Health Ministry, Hospitals, Israeli Authorities, Jericho, jerusalem, Large Scale, Magnitude, Ministry Director, Ministry Of Education, Minor Earthquakes, Pupils, Quake, Quakes, Schoolchildren, Seismic Activity, Southern Lebanon, Temblor, Tremor

Since February, abnormal seismic activity has been noted in southern Lebanon, which had suffered some 500 minor earthquakes in a three-month period, health ministry director-general Avi Yisraeli said in the letter.
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Some seismological experts point out quakes historically have rocked the region every eight decades, and the last one was just about 81 years ago. About [...]

Nuclear Explosion Suspected at Epicenter of the Sichuan Earthquake

Posted by Matt in June 3rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Catastrophe, Concrete Rubble, Death Toll, Discovery, Earthquake, Earthquake In China, Epicenter, Epoch Times, Magnitude, Military Installation, News Reported That, Nuclear Explosion, Sichuan, Witness Reports

This article seems like a bit much to believe. I haven’t seen anything that confirms it. The source for this article is the Epoch Times.
From the article:
An unnamed expert believes that a nuclear explosion caused the recent 8.0 magnitude Sichuan earthquake in China, where three weeks after the catastrophe the death toll has reached 69,000 [...]

From the ruins, Chinese begin to rebuild lives

Posted by Matt in June 2nd, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, 5 Million, beijing, China Daily, Chinese Century, Communist Government, Earthquake, Economic Superpower, Lehman Brothers, Magnitude, Mianyang, Oded, Ohio State University, Open Response, Outrage, Reconstruction, shanghai, Sichuan, Three Decades, University China, Xinhua News Agency, Yang Yang

Like Su, China is already trying to look ahead after the magnitude-7.9 earthquake. Reconstruction has started, even as the communist government attempts to feed and shelter about 5 million people left homeless by the massive disaster.
Shopkeepers who lost years of investment are plotting how to get their businesses running again. The government’s open response may [...]

At least 100 dead as powerful quake hits southwest China

Posted by Matt in May 12th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, 100 People, beijing, Deadly Earthquake, Earthquake Risk, Earthquake Victims, Epicentre, Estimates, Hindu, Magnitude, Malaysia Star, Military Official, New Scientist, Nuclear Reactors, Powerful Earthquake, Powerful Quake, Quake Relief, Quake Toll, Richter Scale, Sichuan Province, Southeast Asia, Southwest China, Southwestern China, Swathe, Thai Capital Bangkok, Wall Street Journal, Washington D.C., Washington Times, Xinhua News Agency

A powerful earthquake struck Monday close to densely populated areas of southwestern China, flattening schools and homes and killing more than 100 people, according to early estimates.
The quake, with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, was felt in cities across a swathe of southeast Asia including the Thai capital Bangkok, more than 1,800 [...]