Quote of the Day
What people don’t realize is the information from the labs is really meaningless to us. I mean, for one, half the people that do meth don’t even know how to spell the word plutonium. Justin Stone on the possibility that…
2006
325 posts
End of the World: Still Hot
Apparently, Kim Jong Il and Marvin Gaye have a little something in common: Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test Chosun Ilbo, October 26, 2006 As tends to be the case in disasters and crises, sales of condoms and…
NCRI Did Not Discover Natanz
The debate about whether Iran has constructed a clandestine centrifuge program drives me nuts. You mean other than the one we already found? And by we, I mean the United States—or at least its intelligence community. As I understand the…
Fleck: Don't Go Apedung
The amazing John Fleck issues a plea “for a little calm while we wait to see what was actually on the mobile home meth lab jump drives ”: When the national news media went all apedung over Wen Ho Lee…
Nuclear Mangos
Welcome to the tiny community of arms control blogs, Mr. Nuclear Mangos.
Barack Obama on Nonproliferation
Nearly every newspaper and blog seems to be doing the “Obama may run for President” story. So, this is really like peer pressure. Where does Barack Obama stand on some of those nonproliferation issues we all obsess about? CTR &…
Mobile Home/Meth Lab/SCIF
I … I just … no … this is so wrong. Let’s say you live with your boyfriend in a mobile home, from which he supports himself by selling methamphetamines. Query: What could possibly be worse than having the neighbors…
Making Iranian Uranium
Say that three times fast. And, yes that is a picture of Iran’s 164 centrifuge cascade. Reuters’ Mark Heinrich reports that Iran has completed a second 164 centrigue cascade at the Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant—but that the Iranians are…
The best move is not to play
Yes, you know exactly which movie that line is from. War Games is fun for several reasons (including the putting of the phone on some receiver thing to dial and connect to somewhere. I clearly need one of those). But…
Buster
If Arms Control Wonk.com had a mascot, it would be Mark Fiore’s Buster, the friendly nuke. (That or maybe Nick Neutron. Tough call.) Anyway, Fiore’s Axis of Oops is brilliant. He joins the The Onion in using satire to better…