B-Dub REVCON Blogging
The Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation will be blogging the 2006 Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference. Cool!
November 2006
24 posts
3 Studies Show Pu Pits Age Well
NNSA has a very helpful press release explaining those studies showing plutonium ages better than Sophia Loren. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be online … until now: Recent studies by Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories show that the…
Assassination by Polonium
Everyone has probably caught the bits and pieces of headlines on the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned and died last week. There is little conclusive information and the assassination has been linked in the press both to…
German Nuclear Tourism
The German Federal government is working with a German history museum in Bonn, the Haus der Geschichte, to transform the former Emergency Seat of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic (Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes)—Germany’s answer to Mount Weather—into…
Sandia Stalker
Another wayward youngster at our national labs. I am going to have to create a separate category for these stories: A woman is accused of using a computer at a national laboratory to hack into a cell phone company’s Web…
Terror Farm, Part 2
This is the second in a many part series based on my article with Peter Zimmerman in Foreign Policy entitled “Bomb in the backyard.” For previous posts click on the phrase terror farm . I wanted to share my favorite…
Iran Honked Off Over TC Denial
So, like, I have a little rhetorical advice for Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured at left). The IAEA has refused your country’s request for technical cooperation—the TC of the title—to improve safety at the IR-40 heavy water reactor under construction near…
Two horses + commandos = Russian HEU
The Atlantic Monthly has a long article in the December 2006 issue on How to Get a Nuclear Bomb. [Sorry, it’s subscription only past the first page, so I am putting in some good quotes from later in the article.]…
Technical Cooperation for Arak
Manging the Atom Quote of the Day: “A 12-inch hunting knife also could be used to spread jam on your toast in the morning.” Former director of nonproliferation at the State Department Robert J. Einhorn “conceded that the Arak reactor…
Pu: Still Ages Like Sophia Loren
In January and March 2006, I blogged about stories by James Sterngold inthe San Francisco Chronicle suggesting plutonium, much like Sophia Loren, ages extremely well—remaining quite, um, fissile for at least 60 years. A new study from Los Alamos and…