Years · 2007

February 2007

28 posts

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Bellows, Bearings and Rotors

Yeesh, sometimes it’s hard to be a wonk. Today, I planned to write about what happens if Iran places its centrifuge cascades in “warm standby.” Still do, actually. But, first, a little housekeeping. A Clarification To Yesterday’s Post So in…

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Chris Hill Draws A Careful Distinction

Chris Hill clearly has other things on his mind these days: NPR: There is one nuclear reactor in North Korea that experts say could produce a nuclear weapon. Is that at the heart these discussions? HILL. Well, to be sure,…

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Hot or Not?

Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the hottest Russian woman working in the nuclear industry of them all? Nuclear.ru and Rosatom are set to crown this year’s . . . MISS ATOM! Who has what it takes to win?…

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Pimp My Cascade

Bill Broad and David Sanger report that Iran is set to make a major announcement. Iran is expected to declare in coming days that it has made a huge leap toward industrial-scale production of enriched uranium — a defiant act…

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Poor Man's Bob Joseph

Last night, at a bar in DC … Arms Control Wonk: Hey … is Ken Brill going to replace Space-Based Bob (Robert Joseph) as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security? Striped Pants Cookie Pusher (SPCP) with Mojito (w/M): I…

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SBX Tasked to Track Taepodong

Friend of Wonk Allen Thompson sends along this little update from the October 2006 issue of Seafarer’s Log: Twenty-six Seafarers recently were lauded for their contributions to the Department of Defense’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) X-Band Radar (XBR) Project office…

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The Onion Strikes Again

The Onion on China’s ASAT test: Americans Demand Military Response After Chinese Shoot Down DirecTV Satellite January 29, 2007 | Issue 43•05 WASHINGTON, DC—A citizens’ group presented a petition signed by nearly 75 million Americans to key members of Congress…