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🎉 **Exciting Milestone in My Research Internship!** 🎉 I’m thrilled to share the highlights of my recent primer on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Risk as part of my research internship. During this session, I delved into the complexities of NBC-centric disasters and their risk mitigation. I delivered a simple and comprehensive background related to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical disasters and historical instances in warfare, utilizing Beck's framework on Risk Society. Furthermore, I presented a simple yardstick differentiation and identification of CBRN elements, (borrowed from the EU CBRN Risk Mitigation Webpage). I was able to extrapolate on the multitude of instances (and their causation) of disasters and malicious use of nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological elements and how they can potentially threaten businesses and people alike. This presentation allowed me to express my interests in the niche field of biological and chemical weapons in warfare & terrorism and tie it with practicality - as in how it matters to current business, government and the public. I’m highly grateful to the Indian Forum for Public Diplomacy (IFPD) for providing me with a platform to apply my niche knack for NBC theory to real-world scenarios, and looking forward to more opportunities like these! #RiskManagement #IFPD #NBCDisasters #Geopolitics #PoliticalRisk #ResearchInternship #CrisisPreparedness #StrategicPlanning #BusinessContinuity #RiskMitigation

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Latest from FE News: Our Apprentices Can Do Anything: “Our apprentices can do anything” @GOVUK on How an NWS apprenticeship can offer ‘skills for life’ and how apprentices are shaping the future of nuclear.… Our Apprentices Can Do Anything was published on FE News by FE News Editor #Employability #Skillsandapprenticeships Read more here:

What does it mean to reshape human-AI collaboration for scientific discovery? And what does it take? 👩🔬 🔬 🤖 Well — the Scientific Artificial Intelligence (SciAI) Center, in partnership with Pasteur Labs & ISI, is committed to finding out! The SciAI Center is stacked: launched by Cornell Engineering with funding from the Office of Naval Research, members also include 50 faculty members, postdocs, and doctoral students at UC Berkeley, Brown, CalTech, U. of Cambridge, UC Santa Cruz, the United States Naval Academy (BEAT ARMY!) — and now Pasteur Labs! (Side note: A summer internship at the SciAI Center is now an option for USNA midshipmen. So jealous!!) If you're interested in learning more, a link to the full announcement is in the comments below. #sciai #humanaicollab #gonavy

Rolls-Royce Submarines is creating more than 200 jobs to provide nuclear reactors for new attack submarines. The firm said it hoped to attract engineers and specialists from around the UK to new offices in Cardiff and Glasgow. More than 100 new jobs will be based in St Mellons, Cardiff, as well as over 100 at Glasgow's Airport Business Park. It follows a deal between the UK, the US and Australia to create new subs using UK-made Rolls-Royce reactors. In Cardiff, the company is looking to attract people with a background in mechanical design, materials engineering, structural integrity analysis, thermal analysis and fluid dynamics. For Glasgow, the focus is on recruiting those with a pedigree in electrical controls and instrumentation and cyber-security, Rolls-Royce said. "This investment is leading to over 100 highly skilled and well-paid new jobs in our capital city," said Welsh Secretary David TC Davies. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack also welcomed the news, saying Scottish skills, expertise and innovation made an enormous contribution to the UK's defence industry. Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/4a1ydqv The Scottish Chambers of Commerce Network is here to support your business - reach out to share your views, concerns and opportunities. #SCCnews #businesssupport #businessnetwork #businessvoice #businessleader Sign up for the Scottish Chambers of Commerce enewsletter at https://buff.ly/3CpsQnu

23 September 1979(RSA DOES NOT THROW WEAPONS AWAY) The event that came to be known as the Vela Incident (after the type of American satellite which detected the flash) occurred over the Indian Ocean, near South Africa's Prince Edward Island. The most obvious explanation was that someone had detonated an atomic bomb. Many observers came to believe that it was indeed a joint South African-Israeli nuclear test. South African officials adamantly denied knowledge of any blast. However, it was noted that the denials stopped short of saying that South Africa had not detonated a bomb or that the country had no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons. Indeed, it was later revealed that by the early 1990's South Africa had developed a modest stockpile of nuclear weapons despite world economic sanctions. While there were important outside suppliers of the necessary hardware, most notably Israel; it is surprising, even alarming, what the South African government was able to achieve under the circumstances. "These guys were immensely proud of what they achieved under sanctions," says a U.S. State Department official, "they came up with their own home-spun technology." Ironically, by the time ordinary South Africans knew of their county's nuclear weapons capability, it had already been dismantled. On March 24 1993, President F. W. de Klerk announced to a Joint Session of South African Parliament, "at one stage South Africa did develop a limited nuclear deterrent capability," but "early in 1990 final effect was given to decisions that all the nuclear devices should be dismantled and destroyed." South Africa thus represents the world's first instance of nuclear rollback, a state that has unilaterally and voluntarily relinquished its nuclear weapons. To this day, experts are still not certain whether that bright flash detected in September of 1979 was in fact the result of a South African nuclear test or some natural event, perhaps an exploding meteor. Sensing equipment onboard the aging Vela satellite was primitive even by 1970's technical standards. No doubt the alarm demonstrated worldwide concerns over the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the relative ease at which even a nation under the crushing weight of international sanctions could develop them.  References Richelson. J.T. The Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteoroid. National Security Archive, George Washington University,[online],Availabe at  www2.gwu.edu [Accessed: 20 September 2013]|Sublette Carey (2001), Report on the Vela Incident, 1 September, [online], Available at  nuclearweaponarchive.org [Accessed: 20 September 2013]|Global Security, Nuclear Weapons Testing, [online], Available at  www.globalsecurity.org [Accessed: 20 September 2013]

As part of this year’s International Women's Day, WINS is highlighting how we #InvestInWomen through providing ongoing professional development through certification and training. The WINS Academy provides scholarships for women and participants from certain countries. The courses offered by the WINS Academy are advantageous to individuals at any point in their career trajectory. 👩🏾💼   Two-time scholarship recipient Sanaa Alvira provides some insight about how her experience at the WINS Academy helped kickstart her career in the nuclear sector. ☢️   In an interview WINS conducted with Ms Alvira last year, she said the following about the scholarship application process, “It is not a long application process in which you have to write a long motivation letter or provide reference letters. Once you become a WINS member, 50% of the work in applying is already done, and all you have to do is answer a couple more questions on the WINS website about your background on a simple form and send it in.”   To read her interview in detail, head on over to the WINS website ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dET5mRM8   #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay #UNwomen #InvestInWomen #scholarship #scholarshipopportunities #WINSAcademy #diversityWINS #inclusionWINS #genderequalityWINS #ongoinglearning #professionaldevelopment

Thanks to Angelo Wijdh for his 15 point analysis trying to understand why the “West” has not got past the “drip-drip” way military aid is fed to Ukraine. His excellent montage of images of how Putin has acted over the years says all that is needed about this (so called) man. He is the current leader of the Russian Federation (RF) and trying to outdo Stalin in the number of people killed. This Gremlin in the Kremlin is a product of the evolution of the communist party and I recommend a paper from the University of Hawaii “Power kills: Genocide and Mass Murder “ (Go to https://lnkd.in/e7K-REEd) The abstract contains the following: “The most such killing was done by the Soviet Union (near 62,000,000 people), the communist government of China is second (near 35,000,000), followed by Nazi Germany (almost 21,000,000), and Nationalist China (some 10,000,000)." Communist & Facist regimes are fatal to humans. With the rise in right wing political movements around the world we should all be aware that “power kills and absolute power kills absolutely “. Final comment: This absolute power not only kills humans - a consequence of this absolute power is “Ecocide”. Think Aral Sea, Lake Baikal, nuclear power failures (sunken submarines etc), Aleppo (see: https://lnkd.in/ePcqFPMQ) For information on “The environmental health impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine” go to: https://lnkd.in/esYDCFMs. Absolute power contributes greatly to killing our planet. #slavaukraini #stoprussianagression #supportukraine #admitukrainetoNATOnow

To Guam and Micronesia: Please be aware, you must get any and all nuclear activity including nuclear fuel, nuclear fueled ships, nuclear submarines, hypersonic missiles, etc. Your area is going to be a haven for weapons testing. No amount of money will make up for your loss. You will wind up in the mainland or another country. Costs for a new home are close to a million, or more, and that does not include land. Micronesia will not be suitable for fisheries, and aquatic life and lifestyles...which is the core of our culture. For guidance, the United Nations can help somewhat, but DO NOT DEPEND ON THEM FOR ANY TIMELY MATTERS. Here is a group called SIPRI that is a network of professionals and their networks that help in disarming nuclear weapons....make sure you include nuclear power plants. The Philippines now has one...they did not activate it before...horrible. We are groups of islands, and one editor measures Micronesia and its islands and sea territories to be as large and the USA mainland. So protect it...RIMPAC (U.S. military pact of very active militaries from around the world playing weapons testing in the Pacific Ocean) will definitely go after it. It is a vast area, a continent (which you already probably know). We owe it to our people, our culture, our fish and dolphins, whales, and other life in the ocean which are billions more in life (not dollars), than the human race. It is also the biggest ocean on the Earth. https://lnkd.in/eq6YbTt7