Atomic Schwag
Friends know that I love shopping for used books. A few of my friends share my obsession, notably physicist Götz Neuneck (and, yes, that is a heavy metal umlaut). By far, my greatest used book pick up was a 1962…
June 2006
26 posts
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…
Survival Secrets for Atomic Attacks
Michael Katz Hyman sends along this brilliantly funny manual, NSRB DOC. 130 Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950). Remember kids, “Beyond 2 miles, the explosion will cause practically no deaths at all.” The atomic age inspired all sorts of “you can…
Mahley On Libya
A couple of weeks ago, Judy Miller made a passing reference to “a ‘Lessons Learned’ paper for an arms-control newsletter” written by Ambassador Donald Mahley, Senior WMD Representative in Libya. I was like, what Lessons Learned paper? So was Kerr.…
Bombs From Space
Christopher Stone, “a space/missile officer with Air Force Space Command-Reserve Component”, has written an article in the Space Review blaming “certain circles” and “political” reasons for the lack of orbital strike weapons. Stone omitted, as a reason, the laws of…
Blix on India
Hans Blix came out against the US-India nuclear deal, kind of—according to a press release from Ed Markey’s (D-MA) office: “I am concerned about the impact on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. These concerns could be met if India, Pakistan,…
Iran and Google Earth
Geoff Forden at MIT has a sweet tour of Iran’s nuclear facilities for Google Earth—including Arak, where for some strange reason the Bush Administration believes Iran should be able to produce two bombs worth of plutonium a year. (WHAT? You…
Armenian Chess Houligans
I can’t make this stuff up. Via John Fleck.
Bushehr Turbine Hall
BBC has a fav pic that uses for Iran’s nuclear program (right). I noticed it once, didn’t immediately recognize what it was, then forgot to follow up. Someone asked about the image in the comments section and, voila, the Arms…
Sure Is a Nice Package
So, by now, everyone knows that a draft version of the 5+1 offer to Iran is available on the “internets”. I spent most of the day making phone calls and have a pretty decent idea how the document hit the…