Nuclear Weapons Nerds

Re:Nuclear Weapons Nerds by irq on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:02PM (#17823946)

Your link is broken - I think it's because their TLS configuration doesn't support the non-www hostname. This link works though:

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/

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Re:Nuclear Weapons Nerds by toufka on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:12PM (#17823988)

I second their recommendation and add that their podcast is really good and nerdy.

They also put to pragmatic social and geopolitical use a lot of tech in a low-budget way: imaging from Planet Labs, machine learning in inage analysis, etc. And they go through how they pit them to use in detail.

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Re:Nuclear Weapons Nerds by avar on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:07AM (#17827346)

I'm also a regular listener to ACW. Where is it covered that they use machine learning?

According to the latest podcast, which goes into this topic in detail, they don't use machine learning at all (but would like to try it): https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1205801/south-korean...

Instead, they're finding missile sites by manually tracking information leaks in various places. E.g. that podcast discusses how they found a secret South Korean site partially from publicly available images (it had a really distinctive design), and from things like browsing the LinkedIn profiles of people known to work there, which would mention that they worked in some nearby town or county.

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