Well, Come to Beijing!
So said the sign at the aiport (above). I will be in Beijing all this week, then moving down to Xiamen for a few days. I never thought I would miss the smell of pollution, but, when I stepped off…
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Taiyuan Space Launch Center
Crossposted at DefenseTech.org as “Eyeing China’s Missileers.” ITAR TASS reports that China test fired a DF-31 ICBM from the Taiyuan Space Launch Center: China has carried out a regular test launch of a Dongfeng-31 intercontinental ballistic missile. Itar-Tass was told…
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Hunter Payload, F16 in Daytime/IR Mode
Further Update: Reader “Canuck” converts the eastings/northings (E 553870 N 3503649 Z12 N) into latitude and longitude (31.6668° N -110.43172° W) to confirm that UAV was … about 20 km from Fort Huachuca. Canuck, you have a cold one waiting…
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Best Option in a Bad Situation
Calling it “the best option in a bad situation,” Geoff Forden and John Thomson have another paper out recommending a multinational nuclear arrangement to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program: Iran would lease all its enrichment-related equipment and facilities…
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Random Wonk Shout Out
An idiosyncratic endeavor such as this blog can hardly be expected to produce predictable links or references. Yet even with a healthy expectation of surprise, every now and again, I am shocked to see a very random reference to my…
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Economics of Energy Independence for Iran
The National Laboratories provide all kinds of support to the nation’s intelligence community. But try getting them to talk about it. When the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck tried to write about the support that Los Alamos and Sandia provide, he…
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Get Enriched or Die Tryin' 2
The phat phont reading “get enriched or die tryin” is 5 Cent by Johan Waldenström . I figured a man as gangsta as Ahmadinejad deserves his own piece. Do we get to call it Pharsi, now? Ahmadinejad is not kidding,…
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OSD Policy Reorg
Cross posted at DefenseTech.org So, imagine you are the Rumsfeld Defense Department. You are locked in a “global struggle against violent extremists” “stretching from Indonesia through the Middle East,”. You have 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq as the central front…
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IAEA/2006/53
By popular demand, I am telling everyone that ISIS posted the IAEA report: Lots of things causing heartburn, but everyone is pointing to this paragraph noting some HEU particles on some waste containers: 17. The depleted uranium targets which had…
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Heavy Water Plant Not Nuclear Reactor
I was annoyed that most of the major news outlets incorrectly described Iran’s heavy water plant (which cannot make plutonium) as a nuclear “reactor” (which can). I was thinking that an excellent blog post would point out that a heavy…