Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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NNSA has a very helpful press release explaining those studies showing plutonium ages better than Sophia Loren. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be online … until now: Recent studies by Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories show that the…
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The German Federal government is working with a German history museum in Bonn, the Haus der Geschichte, to transform the former Emergency Seat of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic (Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes)—Germany’s answer to Mount Weather—into…
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Another wayward youngster at our national labs. I am going to have to create a separate category for these stories: A woman is accused of using a computer at a national laboratory to hack into a cell phone company’s Web…
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This is the second in a many part series based on my article with Peter Zimmerman in Foreign Policy entitled “Bomb in the backyard.” For previous posts click on the phrase terror farm . I wanted to share my favorite…
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So, like, I have a little rhetorical advice for Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured at left). The IAEA has refused your country’s request for technical cooperation—the TC of the title—to improve safety at the IR-40 heavy water reactor under construction near…
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Manging the Atom Quote of the Day: “A 12-inch hunting knife also could be used to spread jam on your toast in the morning.” Former director of nonproliferation at the State Department Robert J. Einhorn “conceded that the Arak reactor…
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In January and March 2006, I blogged about stories by James Sterngold inthe San Francisco Chronicle suggesting plutonium, much like Sophia Loren, ages extremely well—remaining quite, um, fissile for at least 60 years. A new study from Los Alamos and…
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WaPo’s Dafna Linzer reports that the Congress has asked for an intelligence assessment on India’s nonproliferation record, particularly its ties to Iran: In a Jan. 23 letter to John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, the ranking chairmen of the…
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Stephen Aftergood’s Secrecy News commends SECDEF nominee Bob Gates on his record regarding openness, oversight: ROBERT GATES ON OPENNESS, OVERSIGHT As Director of Central Intelligence from 1991-1993, Robert M. Gates, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, grappled…
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Google Earth now has high resolution imagery of what is generally believed to be China’s Guangyuan plutonium production reactor. Click on the image for a .kmz file. The annotations are reproduced from David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, Chinese Military Plutonium…
