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ORLANDO -- Most golf fans probably thought the last Major tournament of the year was the PGA Championship back in August. Maybe some considered the Tour Championship two weeks ago to be a fifth and final Major.
But they forgot one. The World Championship.
That is, the World Championship of Golden Tee.
For those who don't know, Golden Tee is the arcade video golf game that's now a mainstay at practically every sports bar in the country, right alongside the pool table and the dartboard. But even avid Tee players may be surprised to learn there's been a World Championship tournament run by the game's parent company, Incredible Technologies, for the past two years.
Last week in Orlando, 32 players from six different countries competed for the coveted title and a $15,000 grand prize check. And I've got to tell you - it was a lot more exciting than you might think.
When I walked into the Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at 10:45 on a Monday morning, Day 1 of the tournament, the set-up was impressive. A private area of the restaurant had been roped off, and eight Tee machines had been stationed around the perimeter of the room. Each machine had a TV either overhead or alongside it, so spectators could watch the games from afar.
Thousands of players, from nine countries altogether, attempted to make it to Orlando by winning qualifying tournaments in their respective countries. In the end, 16 Americans were selected, along with 16 international players hailing from Canada, Great Britain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
The first day of the tournament is Golden Tee's version of the Ryder Cup. The U.S. team takes on the World team in a series of matches for the team title. First, two-man teams from each side play a round of alternating holes -- teammates take turns, playing every other hole. Then the teams play another round, alternating every shot instead of every hole. Finally, there are four rounds of singles matches -- so everyone gets to play singles twice.
The U.S. team, as expected, took a commanding early lead. After all, Golden Tee has been in America longer than anywhere else. The U.S. won the team title last year, 34-14.
But from the very beginning, I was blown away by how good all the players were. They don't play the golf course -- they annihilate it. On Par-4s, they shoot for the pin right off the tee. They bounce balls off boulders and wooden bridges onto the green. There are eagles galore. Birdie is an average score, at best.
Several players immediately ripped off rounds of better than 20-under par. Some claim to have shot better than 30-under in the past.
But the international players were much more competitive this year. Marty Awatere, the New Zealand national champion, had a particularly good day. Along with fellow Kiwi Mike Norman, he took out one of the top-ranked U.S. teams in an early Ryder Cup match.
The 27-year-old from Lower Hutt, Wellington, said he would have enjoyed himself in Orlando no matter what the results.
"The thing that draws me is the experience," Marty said. "I've fallen in love with this game. It's become an addiction. And coming here, watching these superstars play, I get to see them pull off shots I've never even seen before. It's just amazing."
It also can't hurt that Incredible Technologies pays for all the players to come to Orlando, puts them up in a beautiful nearby resort, and pads their pockets with a few hundred dollars in spending money.
The U.S. team ended up taking the Ryder Cup title again, 28-20 this time around. But Marty didn't get too excited.
"The big guns weren't showing their full deck," he said. "They were saving their best shots for tomorrow. That's when the real competition begins."
Marty was right. Tuesday's individual title, and the $15,000 that went along with it, was what everyone was focused on. The favorites all seemed relaxed on Monday, chatting with me about their personal histories with the game.
Ryan Bourgeois, a 32-year-old from Houston, was the captain of this year's U.S. team, by virtue of winning the U.S. national championship, the second-biggest tournament of the year, in Las Vegas. His lifetime Golden Tee scoring average is better than 22-under par. He has 1,610 lifetime holes-in-one. And he's already earned more than $95,000 playing Tee during the 2002-2003 season.
"The first time I played Golden Tee, honestly, I didn't really like it," Ryan admitted. "But I played it a few more times, and then suddenly I just couldn't quit.
"They add new courses every year. The game changes, and you can never be good enough," he added. "It's so great because you can never, ever master this game."
This, despite the fact Ryan estimates he's played about 2,000 games of Golden Tee each year for the last seven years. He has a machine in his house, but he only plays three-to-four days a week now that he has a five-month-old daughter to take care of.
But his wife is very supportive of his Tee career. "She doesn't mind it," Ryan said. "She sees the checks."
Meanwhile, 30-year-old Steve Sobe, hailing from Mt. Airy, North Carolina, also felt quite confident on Monday. Steve won the U.S. national championship for three consecutive years, from 2000-2002. His lifetime scoring average is better than 21-under par. He has 770 lifetime holes-in-one. And he's made over $50,000 already this season playing the game.
Steve started playing regularly eight years ago with a few friends, and said none of them realized they were any good until they won $1,500 for placing third in a tourney a year or so after they started playing.
"I'll be honest, I got hooked on the money factor," Steve said. "I was like, 'Heck, you're gonna pay me to play this?' "
Steve estimated he's made more than a quarter of a million dollars playing the game over the course of his Golden Tee career. Every year, through the Incredible Technologies website (which keeps stats for all its registered players), Steve prints out his stats and earnings and then sends that print-out to the IRS. That way, he's able to declare the money he puts into Golden Tee as a tax write-off.
And Steve doesn't let injuries hinder his game. Many players suffer cuts on their hands from how violently they swing forward on the game console's trackball to get power on their shots. Players have even broken hands playing Golden Tee.
"I'm usually the one bleeding," Steve said. "But I just say, 'Patch me up so I can keep playing!' I even learned to play left-handed. Nothing's gonna stop me. I'll take the pain, if that's what it takes to win."
But Steve Sobe wasn't the the favorite in Orlando, according to many people around the tournament. The favorite was Chris Eversole, a 25-year-old player from Atlanta. Eversole, a relative newcomer to the game, only began to play in April 2002. But he arrived in Orlando on a tear, having won four consecutive tournaments dating back to July.
Chris plays at least four or five games a day at the machine he has in his home. "But it's totally different when you're playing in a live tournament," Chris said. "You have to have your nerves completely under control to win."
Tuesday's competition started at 10 a.m., and the atmosphere was different from the get-go. Unlike all other Golden Tee tournaments, which are double-elimination, the World Championship is single-elimination. Lose one, and you're done.
The international players definitely seemed looser -- probably because less was expected of them. All the players were asked to wear khakis or jeans instead of shorts. But Scotland's Davy Reid sported a traditional Scottish kilt. And New Zealander Mike Norman had a Miller Lite in his hand when his match began shortly after 10.
The draw was divided into a U.S. half and a World half. Each side would battle it out among themselves, guaranteeing a U.S. player and a World player in the championship match. Each draw was put together using qualifier rankings.
There were a couple of early upsets. The shocker came in the final match of the first round, when heavy underdog Mark Firestone took out Steve Sobe. In the world of Golden Tee, this is earth-shattering. Steve walked briskly out of the room afterwards, clearly not pleased despite his $1,000 consolation prize.
The second round featured a showdown between Eversole, the favorite, and Bourgeois, the reigning U.S. national champion. Bourgeois struggled, and Eversole easily took him out. Then, in the U.S. final, Eversole faced defending world champion Graig Kinzler, and knocked him off as well to advance to the championship match.
The World draw was also exciting. Marty Awatere had another great day -- the guy who didn't win a single match in Orlando a year ago got all the way to the international finals, spurred on by a thrilling overtime win against Australian national champion Danny Zivanovic. But Marty lost to Tim Glenn, the Canadian player of the year, in the World finals.
After a quick break for a smoke, the championship match began. The final was the only double elimination round of the tournament -- the champion would have to win two out of three games. The room was jam-packed -- and quieter than ever, except for occasional applause after particularly impressive shots.
Eversole was all-business, often mopping his sweaty hands and brow with the white towel he kept nearby. Glenn sipped from a beer once in a while, and fiddled with his Golden Tee glove.
Surprisingly, Eversole trailed by three strokes early in the first game. But he tied the match at 20-under heading to the 18th hole. Eversole made birdie. Glenn found the water. Game 1 went to Eversole, by a stroke.
The second game was another thriller. Glenn was down two shots coming down the stretch, but appeared to get a stroke back on No. 16 after a wonderful eagle chip-in from the rough. So what did Eversole do? Holed an ever tougher eagle chip from the bunker. The crowd erupted.
Then, on the short Par-4 18th, Eversole gambled and went for the green off the tee with a 5-wood. The ball landed on the putting surface, then rolled towards the edge of the cliff, overlooking the water ...
... and suddenly stopped short on the very last smidgeon of land.
The crowd went crazy. Eversole bowed his head for several seconds, as if in prayer to the Golden Tee gods.
"Honestly, I hit the wrong shot there," Eversole said afterwards. "I shouldn't have hit that ball with backspin. Ninety-nine out of 100 times, that shot goes in the water."
But that one was good enough for the win. The final score? 25-under to 22-under. Eversole is the world champ.
And he didn't just win the money and the title. He was presented with the Golden Tee Bomber Jacket -- a hipper version of Augusta's Green Jacket, something he can actually wear in his local bar back home. And he was automatically inducted into the Golden Tee Society, the most exclusive Golden Tee club on the planet, consisting of only a handful of members.
"I'm in absolute shock," Eversole said. "I've wanted this for so long."
But the tournament wasn't over, at least for me. Steve Sobe agreed to play 18 holes with me after the championship match. I'm a mediocre Golden Tee player -- my best round ever was probably about 6-under par. But as Steve told me, "The best way to learn is to play with a top player."
After just one hole, Steve was all over me like Tiger Woods' swing doctor. I wasn't hitting down on the trackball hard enough, which meant I was sacrificing potential power. And on my putts, I was positioning my thumbs wrong, allowing one thumb to push the ball more than the other and causing the ball to go off-line.
He also counseled me on playing the proper angles, and on club selection. "This game is physically demanding, and mentally draining," he said. "You have to make crucial decisions, but that's only half the battle. The rest is physics."
Ironically, I actually out-drove him on the first hole, which we both birdied. But a bogey on No. 2 brought me back to earth. Steve ended up shooting 20-under. I finished 19 strokes behind. But I had a rare (for me) eagle on No. 4, and two near-holes-in-one. I felt like a better Tee player already.
Then I looked around. Many of the competitors had stayed as well, and were still playing -- some for side bets, some just for fun. Even the champ was back on the links. And they were all clearly enjoying one another's company. In fact, besides meeting up at tournaments, many of them keep in touch over the phone and the internet all year long.
"I've made friends from all over North America," Ryan Bourgeois told me. "We have this common bond. We all love to play this little video game."
"We come from all walks of life," added Steve Sobe. "But this here is a brotherhood."
For a couple of days, I felt a part of it.
Now I think I always will.
You can e-mail Kieran Darcy at firstname.lastname@example.org.


SZA is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer who has been making waves in the music industry since the release of her debut studio album, CTRL, in 2017. With her distinct blend of R&B, soul, and hip-hop, SZA has become one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists of the decade. At this point there no individual in the world that doesn’t know about SZA.
SZA’s third studio album, SOS, is an ambitious and masterfully crafted effort that showcases her distinct blend of R&B, soul, and hip-hop. The album was met with universal acclaim from critics and was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 and holding it for the 10th week holding off Taylor Swift’s new album Midnights and Drake’s new album Her Loss.
What so special about the album
The last album by a woman to have achieved 10 weeks at No. 1 was Adele’s “25” (2015), and before that, Taylor Swift’s “1989” achieved the mark with 11 weeks (2014) and now SZA’s new album has achieved that #1 spot after 8 years.
“SOS” has been a streaming powerhouse since its December debut. “SOS” had 405 million on-demand streams in its first week on the charts, making it the fifth-largest streaming week of 2022 and the second-largest streaming week ever for an album by a female artist (Swift’s “Midnights” had 549.26 million). According to data via Billboard, the record maintained its number one position this week by earning the equivalent of 87,000 album units in the United States and 118 million streams. So far, SOS has had a huge impact on music culture and has been nominated for a number of awards, including a Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
About the album
The production on SOS is lush and layered, with SZA’s distinct vocals taking center stage. The instrumental production is kept minimal, allowing SZA’s lyrics to take the spotlight. The lyrics are personal and relatable, touching on topics such as heartbreak, love, and self-discovery. Her lyrics are often praised for her honesty and vulnerability. She has a knack for capturing the nuances of relationships and exploring the complexities of love. The album is also a celebration of her own personal growth and journey, and her lyrics often reflect her newfound confidence and strength. The album contains over 23 tracks containing features like from Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers , Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Travis Scott
The album has gained over Billions of streams over Spotify and all the other music streaming services in a matter of 10 weeks. And the song Kill Bill being the highlight of the album growing over 540 million streams very well passing Ice Spice and PinkPantheress’s new single by over a margin. And maintains the 2# spot in the Billboard Hot 100
The singer recently unveiled the impending arrival of a new deluxe album featuring 10 additional tracks, though a release date was not disclosed. With bonus tracks on the horizon, “SOS” may see an extended chart run but is expected to be challenged for the top slot in the next week thanks to major releases like Karol G’s “Mañana Será Bonito ” and Yeat’s “AfterLyfe,” which are poised for big debuts on next week’s chart. This week will also see the release of Morgan Wallen’s highly-anticipated third studio album “One Thing at a Time.
Opinions from the Audience
SOS received universal acclaim from critics upon its release, with Pitchfork awarding the album a perfect score of 10/10 and describing it as “a sprawling, beautiful meditation on self-discovery and joy”. Rolling Stone praised SZA’s “rich, soulful voice” and called the album “as close to a perfect pop album as it gets”. The Guardian also praised the album, stating that “SOS is an album of immense power and poise, a bold statement from an artist who has found her voice and is unafraid to use it”. The album was also praised for its production value and lyrical depth, with many critics noting that this was SZA’s most confident and mature work to date.


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R.I.P. Chris Reimer :(
what a brilliant band, the guitar parts were both complex and damn catchy, a great musician. R.I.P
like 'Sag Harbor Bridge', fantastic guitar work there.
They were on hiatus anyway...
have missed them so much over the last 18 months. always hoped they would get back together... two ridiculously underrated albums which deserve to be heard by more.
I saw them in 2009, and they were so good.
Just mad :(
Quite heartbreaking what his sister has written. I heard their debut ages back but don't remember it, I'll look them up on spotify this time.
This band are/were simply brilliant. Their song "Eyesore" is one of the best songs of recent years. The guitar work is exquisite.
I wrote some more words on it here; http://bit.ly/Agfzwi
I had no idea he was so young either. Younger than me ffs.
still so much potential, so young.
yeah, the st and Public Strain are properly special and hugely underrated. so sad that such a young life has been snuffed out, just like that. :(

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Hello from a very rainy, dark St. Madoes!
The Scottish word I like to use is driech and it fits today very well. I really don't like this kind of weather.
Another challenge card today - cutie Pie Challenge Blog have the theme
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I have done this sunny scene to cheer me up. The images are all from Make it Crafty where you will find some brilliant digital stamps and the backgrounds are amazing.
I've gone for quite muted colours on this, using peach and lemon which are colours I don't normally use.
I'm still battling through Christmas Cards and I will post some on here soon.
Hope the sun is shining wherever you are.
Bye for now!

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- Real nameMarco Perego
- Date of birthMarch 1, 1979
- Age43 years
- Zodiac signPisces
- BirthplaceSalò, Italy
Parents and family
- Father Ezio Perego
- Mother Name Unknown
There is no info whether Marco has siblings or not
Marco Perego-Saldana wife
Marco Perego-Saldana 3 kids
Marco Perego-Saldana is an artist who was born in Italy but later moved to the United States. Since 2016, he has been a US citizen. In youth, Marco was a soccer player. But he suffered a leg injury at 21 and had to forget about professional sports career.
Perego rose to fame in 2008 thanks to painting the background of Dolce and Gabbana’s Where the Fashion Meets Art ad. Today, he is engaged into some other ventures as well. Thus, Marco was a writer and director of Burn to Shine short film. And he currently works at Keyhole Garden movie, where his wife will play. Moreover, the artist produced Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story documentary and Me + Her short movie.
Marco Perego started dating Avatar star Zoe Saldana in March 2013 and in June, the couple secretly tied knots in London. After the wedding, the spouses adopted each other’s surnames and thus, Marco is Perego-Saldana while Zoe is Saldana-Perego. In 2014, their family was blessed with twins Bowie and Cy. And in 2017, their younger son Zen drew his first breath.
Marco seems to be head over heels in love with Zoe. He has a tattoo of his beloved wife’s face on his arm and often shares her photos on social media. He also visits various events with her and supports Zoe’s humanitarian efforts. Moreover, Marco and Zoe adhere to a gluten- and dairy-free diet due to the Guardians of the Galaxy star’s battle with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
A curious fact: Marco is nicknamed Pirate Perego. He even uses this nickname for his Instagram account.


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Predicting User Physiological Response for Interactive Environments: An Inductive Approach
Affective reasoning holds significant potential for interactive digital entertainment, education, and training. Incorporating affective reasoning into the decision-making capabilities of interactive environments could enable them to create customized experiences that are dynamically tailored to individual users' ever changing levels of engagement, interest, and emotional state. Because physiological responses are directly triggered by changes in affect, biofeedback data such as heart rate and galvanic skin response can be used to infer affective changes. However, biofeedback hardware is intrusive and cumbersome in deployed applications. This paper proposes an inductive framework for automatically learning models of users’ physiological response from observations of user behaviors in interactive environments. These models can be used at runtime without biofeedback hardware to continuously predict users' physiological state directly from situational context in the interactive environment. Empirical studies with induced decision tree, naïve Bayes, and Bayesian Network physiological response models suggest that they may be sufficiently accurate for practical use.

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Accelerometry is at the heart of a number of crucial technologies from inertial navigations to high-precision machinery. It is becoming ever more important that such systems operate in harsh environmental conditions and with quantum precision in order work autonomously from global positioning systems. Optomechanical devices based on movable nanophotonic structures offer one of the best routes towards such technologies.
At the TU Delft, we have developed the world’s most sensitive micro-mirror force sensors using highly-strained membrane materials. We now want to utilize these capabilities towards measuring accelerations in a new quantum limited regime in a form that can be readily utilized for a multi-billion euro industry. This postdoctoral position will require a focus on experimental development, simulations and nano-fabrication of computer-simulated designs.
At the TU Delft we can manipulate and engineer the highly sensitive sensors with ultra-thin materials to realize unprecedented vibration isolation which allow us to measure atto-Newton forces. Since previous design methods were limited by fabrication, we want to create novel designs of mechanical sensors at the nanoscale where we aim to dramatically improve the performance of these sensors via hybrid a approach that combines photonic and phononic designs. This will allow us to create sensors which perform far beyond the capabilities of previous designs. This represents a unique opportunity to create a new line of sensor research by coupling the latest in meta-material design with the ability to nanofabricate very complex designs on a microchip.
As a Postdoc you will be working on (1) simulation of the nanophotonics device by finite element analyses; (2) principles of inertial navigation using accelometers and micro-mirror sensors (3) experimental validation of the new sensor. The goal is to demonstrate and characterize acceleration sensitivities of these new devices in a prototype.
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- good understanding of the following articles is a plus: R. A. Norte, J. P. Moura, S. Groeblacher, Phys. Rev. Lett 116, 147202 (2016) and A.G. Krause et al. Nature Photonics 6 (11) 768, (2012)
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Trump’s call for more nuclear weapons, reported NBC News, “boggle[d] nuclear experts“:
While President Barack Obama has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan to modernize the aging U.S. nuclear triad, no mainstream voices are arguing to increase the numbers of nuclear weapons beyond the 4,500 active warheads the U.S. currently possesses, several experts told NBC News.
Indeed, over at the New York Times, Max Fisher attempted to interpret the Tweet. Was Trump referring to modernization—a policy supported, at least to some degree, by most but opposed by some on the left—or an expanded nuclear arsenal? In a subsequent piece, Fisher laid out the consensus case against the latter:
Mr. Reagan principally turned against the arms race because of its dangers, but others came to oppose it for the simple reason that, after decades and billions or perhaps trillions of dollars, it had failed to accomplish victory.
“Building nukes to get others to stop historically has had the same effect as telling everyone in an email storm to cease using ‘Reply All,’ ” Joshua H. Pollack, an expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, joked on Twitter.
Mr. Pollack added, “There is no last, winning move when it comes to arms racing.”
The first response came from Cheryl Rofer, a retired nuclear scientist at the Los Alamos National Research Laboratory: “But there is a last move.”
But, in fact, there is a small minority of scholars and analysts who do support building more nuclear weapons. One is my friend and colleague, Matt Kroenig. Here, he debates with Joe Cirincione on PBS Newshour. And here is his recent piece in Politico. What Matt thinks matters, both because he’s one of the strongest voices advocating for more nukes, and because, despite being vocally #NeverTrump, there’s a nonzero chance he’ll land in a policy position in the administration.
It should come as little surprise that I think he’s wrong.
First, as Joe points out, when Matt argues for the existance of a “gap” in US and Russian capability, he’s pointing to nuclear warheads rather than delivery capability—that is, the ability to strike your opponent with nuclear weapons. The gap is likely smaller when you include non-deployed nuclear weapons. None of this includes UK or French nuclear capabilities.
The differences at stake here simply aren’t, in my view, enough to worry about. But, more important, we still lack the kind of compelling evidence necessary to guide policy. Matt does have a few academic articles showing that relative number of nuclear weapons can affect crisis outcomes, but the handful of recent studies on how nuclear advantage shapes state interactions points in different directions. You can read a debate on this subject that we hosted at the Duck of Minerva, as well as Erik Voeten’s thoughts on the findings.
Second, as you’ve already guessed, the main argument for increasing the number of nuclear weapons involves Russia. This is, to say the least, a bit odd in the context of an administration that has promised to strike alliances with Moscow. But it also works through a conflation concerning Russian nuclear doctrine. Proponents consistently claim that Russia has adopted a ‘more aggressive’ posture when it comes to using nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict. Matt writes about Moscow’s ‘assertive’ nuclear strategy. What they’re talking about is Russia’s nuclear “de-escalation” doctrine:
De-escalation rests on a revised notion of the scale of nuclear use. During the Cold War, deterrence involved the threat of inflicting unacceptable damage on an enemy. Russia’s de-escalation strategy provides instead for infliction of “tailored damage,” defined as “damage [that is] subjectively unacceptable to the opponent [and] exceeds the benefits the aggressor expects to gain as a result of the use of military force.” The efficacy of threatening tailored damage assumes an asymmetry in a conflict’s stakes. Moscow reasoned when it adopted the policy that, for the United States, intervening on behalf of Chechen rebels (for example) might seem a desirable course of action for a variety of reasons. But it would not be worth the risk of a nuclear exchange. Russia, however, would perceive the stakes as much higher and would find the risk of a nuclear exchange more acceptable. Indeed, in the early 2000s, Russian military experts wrote that US interference in the war in Chechnya could have resulted in a threat to use nuclear weapons.
In an effort to counter NATO’s aggregate conventional military superiority, Russia has placed an increased emphasis on nuclear weapons in its military strategy and doctrine over the past decade and a half. Russian strategy calls for limited nuclear “de-escalation” strikes on NATO targets in the event that it is on the losing end of a conventional war with NATO. The strikes would not primarily aim to destroy NATO military or civilian targets, but to signal Russian resolve and thereby shock NATO into suing for peace on terms favorable to Moscow.
Note what this is not. It is not a nuclear warfighting doctrine. Moscow is not signaling that it will, say, compensate for conventional weakness by targeting US conventional forces with tactical nuclear weapons. The idea here is not to be able to wage (and win) a limited nuclear war at lower rungs of the “ladder of escalation.” In warfighting doctrine, you care about having “escalation dominance”: the ability to ‘outgun’ your opponent at each level of nuclear escalation and therefore deter—or at least control—escalation.
Rather, Russian de-escalation doctrine is more like a nuclear tripwire. It signals that Moscow will:
- Use nuclear weapons first;
- Do so in the event of a threat to the existence of the Russian state—understood, in practice, as a regional conflict on Russia’s border that draws in the United States and in which Russia faces defeat; and
- Engage in a limited number of nuclear strikes as a very dramatic way of showing that if the US pushes Russia any further then the result will be mutually assured destruction.
Why would more nuclear weapons, and more flexible nuclear options, be a useful response to nuclear de-escalation? Beats me. Matt’s own explanation only really makes sense if we’re talking about nuclear warfighting:
Deterrence, however, is in the eye of the beholder, and President Putin may not be deterred by the prospect of a conventional-only response, especially one that might take weeks or months to assemble and employ. Moreover, NATO could be quickly outgunned in such an approach if Russia continued to use nuclear weapons in repeated strikes. Furthermore, in the wake of a nuclear attack, the leaders of NATO countries, including the United States, would need to consider the precedent being set and broader Alliance commitments.
The whole point of nuclear de-escalation is that if the US continues to push Russia at all—whether conventionally or with nuclear attacks—Moscow will respond with a massive nuclear attack. In this context, responding by enhancing US nuclear warfighting capabilities isn’t simply a category mistake—it’s actively dangerous if it encourages Washington to press on after Moscow launches its demonstration strikes.
Third, advocates for increasing the US nuclear arsenal argue that it will deter countries like China and North Korea. It will show them that building more nuclear weapons is fruitless. The answer to this is rather simple. China currently has about 260 warheads. North Korea possesses between six and eight. Neither country threatens to close the gap anytime soon. China remains uninterested in doing so, which means that the biggest risk comes from a shift to a more aggressive American policy. Indeed, North Korea can never close the gap in any meaningful way, which suggests Pyongyang is not terribly sensitive to the relative nuclear balance with the United States.
Note that the country engaging in the most aggressive increase in its nuclear arsenal isn’t North Korea, China, Russia, or any of the other countries usually discussed in this context. It’s Pakistan.
In sum, there are good reasons to support some degree of US nuclear modernization. At the very least, we need to ensure that America retains the human capital and other infrastructure necessary to adapt to future changes in the nuclear-weapons environment. But there remains no good case for increasing the size of our nuclear arsenal.

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