Feed Updates
For those of you frustrated with the wonk feed lately – I have some good news. We pushed through a major update this weekend that should stabilize a newly validated feed. So please rejoin us. And if you are (still)…
Category: administrivia
Wonk Outage
Greg here – I apologize to everyone for the extended outage. We had a series of badly timed events which all occurred about six hours before I sailed away to Bermuda for seven unplugged days. We’re back online now and…
The Fine Art of Hotel Expressionism
Friends, I will be in London and Paris for the next two weeks, beginning with a display of the fine art of hotel expressionism showing at the Swissotel in London. If any of you, dear readers, are available for a…
Greetings from Sedona
I am in Sedona, Arizona through Wednesday, as a guest of the Stanley Foundation. As you can see from the picture of my Casita snuggled against the mountains, Sedona is cold and overcast. Sometimes, it is so tough to be…
Lloyd Bentsen, 1921-2006
Stephen Schwartz reminds us of a goofy comment that earned the late, great Lloyd Bentsen a footnote in nuclear history. Lloyd M. Bentsen, who represented Texas in the House and Senate for 28 years and was also the 1988 Democratic…
Will Huntington, Bad Man
Yeah, you know why. AWESOME.
Iran News Online
Some of you may be regular readers of Managing the Atom’s Iran News—a daily e-mail compilation of news stories related to Iran and the nuclear fuel cycle. We’ve moved the service online, supplemented by a weekly e-mail summary. http://www.managing-the-atom.org/ The…
Thank You James Nagelberg
I received the following note in the mail yesterday, from reader and friend James Nagelberg. The note accompanied a box containing a sweet Y-12 mug (shown at right) packed in crumpled paper. For those of you who don’t know: The…
Happy Birthday, Dave Abshire
This week was David M. Abshire’s 80th Birthday. Lynne Duke recently had a long article in the Washington Post on DMA, founder of CSIS, and the civility project he is running at the Center for the Study of the Presidency.…
Geneve
I am off to Geneva for a couple of days, back Sunday. The blogging might be light between now and then. I’ll be talking about non-state actors and the threat to space assets as part of the UNIDIR conference, Building…