It’ll be interesting to see how his complete lack of progress looks to folks on the ground when I get across there next week. My US relatives are all ardent Democrats but I imagine that we might bump into one or two Trump supporters on eclipse day (the ones who won’t have mistaken it for ‘the rapture’, that is)
Just looked at it again and, whilst he is based in California, it is actually the Institute of International Studies, so I see no good reason that he would not travel abroad to look at yours.
The thing is, a reasonably well educated layperson knows it takes around 10-15 years to make incremental improvements to a nuclear weapons cache. And if they had somehow made improvements by magic as Trump claims, then they’d be duty bound to report it to the IAEA whereby it would subsequently be all over the news.
All of which is moot, given they already have enough firepower to make the planet uninhabitable many times over.
I noticed the name and find it quite amusing that someone calling themselves toon fan 1 is following/replying to a nuclear weapons expert on Twitter but doesn’t know he is a nuclear weapons expert. Too much of the beverage in the avatar perhaps? Mind, I quite like the odd Bottle of Dog every now and then!!