Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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A new IISS Strategic Comment—“North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Continuing Reverberations”—confirms statements by US and South Korean officials that the NORKs gave the Chinese all of twenty minutes notice before the nuclear test: Chinese sources confirm that North Korea informed Beijing…
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So, I am thumbing through Richard Grimmett’s CRS report Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1998-2005 to find this phrase: Other non-European suppliers [ahem, North Korea] … delivered [to Near East region during the 2002-2005 period] 40 surface-to-surface missiles, a…
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Managing the Atom has acquired copies of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) Comparison Report and Piet et al, Fuel Cycle Scenario Definition, Evaluation, and Trade-offs INL/EXT-06-11683 (August 2006). Go hog wild. Or, if you live in Rhode Island, cohog…
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So, my initial speculation about the cause of failure for North Korea’s nuclear test—remember that I thought the NORKS tried to reduce the size of the warhead with fancy implosion techniques—seems to have gained some credibility. (See So, Like, Why…
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What people don’t realize is the information from the labs is really meaningless to us. I mean, for one, half the people that do meth don’t even know how to spell the word plutonium. Justin Stone on the possibility that…
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Apparently, Kim Jong Il and Marvin Gaye have a little something in common: Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test Chosun Ilbo, October 26, 2006 As tends to be the case in disasters and crises, sales of condoms and…
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The debate about whether Iran has constructed a clandestine centrifuge program drives me nuts. You mean other than the one we already found? And by we, I mean the United States—or at least its intelligence community. As I understand the…
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The amazing John Fleck issues a plea “for a little calm while we wait to see what was actually on the mobile home meth lab jump drives ”: When the national news media went all apedung over Wen Ho Lee…
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I … I just … no … this is so wrong. Let’s say you live with your boyfriend in a mobile home, from which he supports himself by selling methamphetamines. Query: What could possibly be worse than having the neighbors…
