{"id":33238,"date":"2023-12-21T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-et-tu-fruit#id33049"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:34:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-et-tu-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-et-tu-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: Et tu, fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon says China hopes to double its nuclear arsenal to over 1,000 operational warheads by 2030.<\/a> \/ BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n

In all likelihood the United States will continue to seek nuclear primacy “behind a screen of superficially reasonable rhetoric.”<\/a> \/ The London Review of Books<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Schroeder: The US cannot bank on Russian officials to stop Putin from using nuclear weapons.<\/a> \/ Foreign Affairs<\/span><\/p>\n

Unrelated: Remembering Bulgaria in the 1990s—”a carnival ride amid carnage.”<\/a> \/ Switchyard <\/span><\/p>\n

Climate experts give the US mixed grades on its 2023 efforts to mitigate the climate crisis.<\/a> \/ Grist<\/span><\/p>\n

American gas companies give rewards to builders, contractors, and real estate agents to install and promote gas appliances.<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

Wool has far higher greenhouse gas emissions than alternatives for the same amount of fabric.<\/a> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n

“Enigmatic chemical reactions” have broken out in two Los Angeles-area landfills.<\/a> \/ BLDBLG<\/span><\/p>\n

How Bing Crosby helped usher in the Silicon Valley era: he pioneered his signature croon to adapt to microphones and later embraced pre-recorded broadcasts.<\/a> \/ The Honest Broker<\/span><\/p>\n

See also: A logic exercise by Lewis Carroll.<\/a> \/ Futility Closet<\/span><\/p>\n

Century-old drawings by teenage artist Virginia Frances Sterrett.<\/a> \/ The Marginalian<\/span><\/p>\n

Vintage Christmas cards include a lot of animals behaving oddly.<\/a> \/ Flashbak<\/span><\/p>\n

A small town in southern Japan has several bus stops shaped like fruit.<\/a> \/ Kottke<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Pentagon says China hopes to double its nuclear arsenal to over 1,000 operational warheads by 2030. \/ BBC News<\/p>\n

In all likelihood the United States will continue to seek nuclear primacy “behind a screen of superficially reasonable rhe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33239,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions\/33239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}