Alex Wellerstein on Twitter: "Super strange story on the UK Mirror that uses NUKEMAP in curious ways to talk about some rumored Russian weapon. https://t.co/6Yz1NnQaXI"

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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

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1. Ben‏ @Gridlock 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein perfectly normal for the Mirror tbh..
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1. Kai Greet‏ @KaiGreet 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein It's actually a confirmed development, but its capabilities are vastly overstated there. http://russianforces.org/blog/2014/02/sarmat_icbm_to_be_ready_by_202.shtml …
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1. Ben‏ @Gridlock 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein @jasperhamill ..by which I mean uninformed, hysterical, garbage, amateur and painful to read, let alone respond to.
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1. Greg MacCollum‏ @gmacteach 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein Aren’t they just describing an ICBM? Launching a missile doesn’t seem particularly stealthy...
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1. faktoids with a k‏ @faktoids 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein This one? Looks like a completely different weapon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat …
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1. (((Howie)))‏ @HowieBlumenkopf 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein more hyperbole than article.
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1. Pls retweet ma witticisms‏ @Cancun771 10 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein It reads as though they lacked basic nuke knowledge.
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1. Михаил Петров‏ @PreventPapers 11 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein 30окт2015г Россия провела боевую демонстрацию ЯДЕРНОГО УДАРА по США и ЕС https://www.facebook.com/Putin.org/posts/973936792664662 …https://twitter.com/PreventPapers/status/674655474936111104 …
  
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  МАССИРОВАННЫЙ ЯДЕРНЫЙ УДАР по США и Европе. Боевая демонстрация от 30 октября 2015 г http://tinyurl.com/o8ckltn
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1. Михаил Петров‏ @PreventPapers 11 May 2016
  
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  @wellerstein Россия готовится к законной обороне от агрессии США и НАТОhttps://twitter.com/PreventPapers/status/695113481708793856 …
  
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  ЯДЕРНЫЙ УДАР России по Швеции, США и ЕС - боевое моделирование https://www.facebook.com/Putin.org/posts/1021367451254929 … https://www.facebook.com/Putin.org/posts/973936792664662 … pic.twitter.com/G8kaqMmJVd
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