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February 2007
28 posts
Miss Atom Vote!
It is time. The voting has started. (Read about the Miss Atom contest – and our plan – in my prior post.) We will be taking nominations for our ACW pick for the next few days. Comment away. In an…
Iran's Scud Stunt
Noah Shachtman has a sweet new blog over at Wired called, Danger Room. Haninah Levine, science fellow at the Center for Defense Information, weighs in on Iran’s so-called “space launch.” With a little help from the Union of Concerned Scientists’…
Not So Peaceful Skies: More INF Concerns
On February 23, Russia celebrated Fatherland Defender Day. I heard many toasts ending with “za mirnoe nebo” or to the peaceful skies. Seems like a great opportunity to again call attention to Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) issues, which I…
Is the Laptop of Death Bogus?
Turns out some IAEA officials think the purloined laptop that the US has been shopping as evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is a fake, at least in part because all the files are in English. The laptop’s contents…
Ostendorff to NNSA
The White House is nominating Bill Ostendorff to be Principal Deputy Administrator at NNSA: The President intends to nominate William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Ostendorff currently serves as…
Chimpanzees Sought Yellowcake in Africa
We really shouldn’t wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, that is all I am saying: Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small…
Verification
Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.
Disablement, A Tiny Clue
Maybe. I hear at least a few ideas have been kicked around for a while.
Disablement, Whatever That Means
Ah, the simple joys of cross-cultural communication. I was one of many observers struck by Condoleeza Rice’s awkward use of the term “disablement” to refer to an early phase in a process to “denuclearize” North Korea. Now, China Matters rails…