Future Index

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Nuclear weapons

Attention around Nuclear weapons is about usual, and has risen over the last 24 hours.

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Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

  1. AttentionPublic discussionLemmy

    Attention rose sharply

    3.5× its usual variation — much larger than usual

    +4 mentionsup over the last 24 hours

8 changes were compared.

Across signals

No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 1 topic: 1 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 0 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

Nothing was reported on Nuclear weapons in the last 7 days.

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. Rafiki with his new enrichment toy opens in a new tab

    4 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. 65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the *Tsar Bomba* - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT. opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Iran lawmakers call for withdrawal from NPT: Will we have war or peace? opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

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  1. The Corruption Chronicles: October 2026 Edition - Issue One opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  2. 65 years ago today, the Soviet Union tested the *Tsar Bomba* - the most powerful nuclear weapon or weapon of any kind ever constructed and tested. It yielded the equivalent of 50 megatons of TNT. opens in a new tab

    1 commentLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

Forecast contracts

One row per source's own question. These are listed side by side for comparison and are not combined into a single figure — each source is answering its own question, in its own words.

  1. Forecast marketsManifold Markets
    7%unlikely±0.0 ptsunchanged over the last 24 hours
  2. Forecast marketsPolymarket
    6%unlikely+0.8 ptsup over the last 24 hours

Readers' discussion on this site

Comments from readers of this site, newest first. They are opinions, not a measurement: no figure on this page is computed from them.

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Sources

5 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Hacker NewsPublic discussion50.0
  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity50.0
  • LemmyPublic discussion85.4
  • MastodonPublic discussion54.4
  • Wikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)Search & activity52.9

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say