Talking Warheads on EMP
Patrick Disney, who runs the Talking Warheads blog, has a published an article in the Atlantic about the threat (or lack thereof) from EMP. It is part of a broader paper he wrote in his graduate program. Patrick asked to…
Jeffrey Lewis
Gibrat’s Theorem
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about multinational fuel cycle facilities in South Korea lately, which means I am reading a lot about Eurochemic — a multinational reprocessing facility among thirteen European Countries. When you crack open a…
I Still Call It The JAEC
A couple of months ago, Mark Hibbs wrote a nice little post here about China’s interest in commercial-scale reprocessing for its spent nuclear fuel. If you recall, a few reporters got unnecessarily excited about China’s announcement of initial operations at…
AFTAC
The Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) is the intelligence entity that looks for nuclear explosions, although if you are a regular reader you probably know that already. You probably also know that, even by the standards of the US…
Advanced Issues in Arms Control
On occasion, I offer a public service announcement. My friend, Bruce MacDonald, is teaching a week-long class along with Mike Lekson at USIP. I sent one of my research assistants to a previous iteration of the class and he had…
Saga of the Monchegorsk
On July 11, a massive explosion ripped through an ammunition dump at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base in Cyprus. The explosion and ensuing fire have killed a dozen people, including the commander of the Cypriot Navy. The main power station…
Joyner on the NSG
Well, I am still sitting on a post on the new NSG guidelines — I remain genuinely conflicted about whether the Administration got enough or should have walked away. Our debates, public and private, have been entirely about whether the…
Memo from Jon Byong Ho
The Washington Post has just published its latest story by R. Jeffrey Smith based on a document supplied by A.Q. Khan to English journalist and would-be Khan biographer Simon Henderson. This one is different – it’s not one of Khan’s…
The Bhangmeter
I was corresponding with a colleague about the Operation Ivy clip I posted the other day. He is is very knowledgeable about nuclear weapons policy, more so than I am actually, and in passing mentioned one of the diagnostic devices…
Fireworks
A Flash animation or video was embedded here. Flash no longer works in web browsers. On the 4th of July, I thought I would share my idea of fireworks.