Years · 2007

March 2007

29 posts

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USSR and ASAT Testing

I did a short post about a good ACT piece by Wade which contains a short discussion of Soviet ASAT testing. In other news, someone at an event the other night said they recognized me from my avatar. Weird.

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START Talking

Remember how the intelligence community warned that it won’t be able to verify the Moscow Treaty after the START inspection protocol lapses? The Bush Administration, Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times, wants to keep it that way: The Bush administration…

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Vote fast, contest ends tomorrow

We have selected Елена Изотова as the ACW favorite for Miss Atom. She is #6 on the list already so we just need to bump her up a few spots. Elena is a nuclear waste reprocessing engineer at the Chernobyl…

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More On Disablement

Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department…

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Size Matters

I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office…

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The Incredible Shrinking HEU Program

So, Joe DeTrani and Chris Hill admit that the intel on North Korea’s enrichment program is sketchy and all hell breaks loose … (Read the full text of their testimonies). Giacomo, Sanger and Broad, Kessler, and Landay all have stories.…

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DOE Announcement on RRW Today

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Department of Energy plans to announce the reliable replacement warhead contract today: The Energy Department will announce today a contract to develop the nation’s first new hydrogen bomb in two decades, involving a…

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D Feith On The Web

D Feith has, I shit you not, his very own website. Here’s a money quote: Doug Feith is a patriot. I have watched this man for four years. He cares only about what is best for the United States. More…