Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators

Bruce Schneiers thoughts :<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;doge-as-a-national.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;doge-as-a-nat...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;ai-and-civil-service-purges.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.schneier.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;ai-and-civil-...</a>

&gt; <i>Nuclear security is highly specialized, high-pressure work, but it&#x27;s not particularly well paid, one employee told NPR. Given what&#x27;s unfolded over the past 24 hours, &quot;why would anybody want to take these jobs?&quot; they asked.</i><p>The people who will be hired in those jobs in the future are the ones who can&#x27;t find any other job, and don&#x27;t care one way or another. It will be a catastrophe of epic proportions, but hard to notice at first because it happens so slowly. Which makes it all the more dangerous.

The Presidential Pardon being the underlying legal basis of everything. With that power, everything is legal.

In nuclear the saying &quot;there&#x27;s always enough time to do it right the first time&quot; comes to mind. Preventing rework and reducing risk to the safety of the public.<p>When it comes to the doe there are likely departments that could be trimmed back and interpretations of some laws to the cfr made a little more clear, but since the doe is in charge of everything nuclear it might be good to do a more indepth look at each department instead of a quick and careless wipe.<p>Currently nuclear power is regulated in a way of &quot;bring me a rock and I&#x27;ll tell you if it&#x27;s the right rock, but if it isn&#x27;t the right rock it will be painful.

Foreign intelligence agencies must pinch themselves right now.

Department tasked with reigning in bureaucracy finds out where bureaucracy comes from.

Great news for Iran, which might not need to assemble its own nuclear warheads and instead could buy them off some shady salesperson in Bulgaria once they&#x27;ve been pilfered from the US.

Earlier:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43055119">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43055119</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43063512">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43063512</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43061481">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43061481</a>

This should be fixed to match the article title, but if these jobs are important it seems easy to justify not firing them with 200 characters? &quot;Avoid nuclear war&quot; is only 17, and changing &quot;war&quot; to &quot;meltdowns&quot; only adds another 6.

Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration?<p>Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?

The headline is &quot;Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America&#x27;s nuclear weapons&quot;

Imagine if crypto proponents were tasked like this with remaking the monetary systems, without having a real clue why it currently is how it is. It could be interesting and even work, but more likely than not it will just repeat the errors of the past and would be tweaked again and again until it resembles something similar to what it is now, with massive fallout in the meantime.

Challenge accepted. Less than 200 characters.<p>&quot;Man fire, big boom, Trump look bad&quot;<p>Here is another version but Haiku<p>Man Fire Big Boom Trump look dumb