This is a guest post by Ariana Rowberry, Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow with the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Initiative, Brookings Institution. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is preparing for the arduous task of removing and destroying Syria’s…
Remember that incident a few years ago at Minot Air Force Base, with nuclear warheads being transported by accident? Of course we do… discussed all over ACW (link, link and link). The Air Force conducted the Commander Directed Report of…
If a nuclear bomb were to go off in a U.S. city, how long would it take to get info on what kind it was and where it came from? Los Angeles Times had an article about nuclear forensics and…
After looking at low-res blurs for years, now you can count the cars in the Dimona parking lot. Granted they were probably there a year or two ago, but this is still cool. The latest update of Google Earth has…
A few weeks ago I blogged about Russia’s “Father of All Bombs,” a fuel-air bomb they claimed to be the world’s largest non-nuclear weapon. Did the Russians really drop the bomb off a Tu-160 bomber or was the drop a…
Jeffrey will be participating in an event tomorrow at the New America Foundation. He and Gary Samore, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be speaking about Iran’s nuclear program. More details here, and…
Wolfgang Panofsky, director emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, died of a heart attack on Monday evening. He was 88. There is much to be said about Dr. Panofsky’s contributions, from his pioneering research at Los Alamos, Stanford, and…
Earlier this week, AP reported that Russia tested a conventional bomb, which Russian television described as the “world’s most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb.” The TV station highlighted the importance of this weapon. In other words, our bomb is bigger than…
On August 30, the first time since 1968, a U.S. bomber transported missiles armed with six nuclear warheads. By accident. The story is front page CNN.com, but here is the more detailed version at Military Times. The article quotes Hans…
We don’t get many feel good stories on a nonproliferation blog. This Washington Post piece is pretty close though. Next up, Nunn and Lugar superhero suits. Capes of course, but minus latex. PODOLSK, Russia, Aug. 29 — Heavily guarded trucks…
