Guest Bloggers
Matt & Marc Hey, folks. Greetings from vacation in San Francisco and environs. I have asked two magnificent bastards to guest blog this week in my absence. Marc Schanz is an associate editor at Air Force Magazine. Marc has been…
2007
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Sell Banco Delta Asia
One more thing before Marc and Matt take over for the week … As many of you know, the US-DPRK agreement to shutter the Yongbyon reactor is being held hostage by a very arcane dispute over the return of $25…
41 Illegals Worked on SBX
Hello, my name is Volodya. I am looking for work. A Grandy Jury indicted [the labor recruiting companies hired by] Keppel AmFELS for hiring 41 illegal aliens to work on the SBX platform: The three-year investigation leading to this indictment…
Hot ISOG Action
Here and here. Short version: It’s gone. Jeffrey adds: In case you are wondering, what the hell the ISOG is … it is the “Iran Syria Policy Options Group,” which used to be headed by Elizabeth Cheney. The Boston Globe…
Italian Stallions & Plutonium
Oh, you just can’t wait to figure out what the hell that means, can you? I noticed a fun fact about plutonium pits while reading the AAAS report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead: During the Cold War workers at Rocky…
Raiders of the Lost HEU
That was just cooler than the original title of the post, “Nuclear Archeology and Highly Enriched Uranium”—a subject that Frank Von Hippel mentioned during a really interesting meeting organized by Stephen Schwartz and the The Nonproliferation Review. Frank discussed his…
DF-31: Initial Threat Availability
The 2007 Chinese Military Power is out. The most interesting development is that OSD describes the status of the DF-31 as “initial threat availability.” That’s not quite deployment, but the biggest news for DF-31 watchers since the first (apparently unsuccessful)…
Still Working it Out on the India deal
If you haven’t been paying the closest attention to developments on the India nuclear deal, don’t worry, it’s still almost not quite but closer kind of getting there. Reuters reports on the latest unspecified disputes in negotiations over the 123…
Iran Underfeeding The Cascades
As we thought! Iran, according to “knowledgeable officials” paraphrased by Albright, Shire and Brannan, is underfeeding the cascades: Based on interviews with knowledgeable officials, however, the feed rate [of 70 grams per hour] may be higher than the optimal value…
Tech, Politics and Perspective On Iran
Paul has done a stellar job keeping up on the most recent IAEA report, making Total Wonkerr a go-to resource on Iran’s centrifuges. The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung has an excellent, balanced article on the technical and diplomatic implications of…