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Late yesterday the House passed the FY 2009 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5658) sans the administration’s request for dedicated RRW funding. It also thwarted a last-ditch effort by Congressional supporters of RRW to restore some of that funding, which…
A reader, Paul Carroll, made an important point in commenting on a previous post of mine about verifying the North Korean declaration: Obviously, when dealing with North Korea and the risk of diversion or concealment we want the uncertainty to…
ISIS posted a copy of that letter Iran sent to UN SecGen Ban Ki Moon last week. The letter, entitled The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Proposed Package for Constructive Negotiations, does not mention a suspension of uranium enrichment, a key…
Janne Nolan is coming by tomorrow (Tuesday) to talk about the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review and whether it will matter. Posturing About the Future of Nuclear Weapons Predictions for the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review The next President will conduct yet…
Mark Hibbs, writing in Nucleonics Week (subscription required), points out that that damage to China’s nuclear weapons facilities was slight: According to local sources, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, CAEP, located in Mianyang, close to the epicenter of the…
One picks up a variety of strange souvenirs and ephemera in this business. My end of year dosimetry report from Los Alamos strikes me as one. We had to wear dosimeters when we went to see the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic…
Glenn Kessler reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the US Intelligence Community has revised its estimate of the amount of plutonium separated at Yongbyon. U.S. intelligence analysts have prepared a fresh estimate of the size of North Korea’s stockpile…
A friend observes that the Box-on-the-Euphrates may have been modeled to appear, at first glance, like a ruined Byzantine fortress. The other three images are of a Byzantine fortress in Zippori (Sepphoris) National Park, Israel. Same friend sends along some…
That’s the title of a disturbing new study conducted by a team of experts from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. It concludes that “the prospect of hunger-related deaths occurring in the next several months is approaching certainty.” Here is…
I spent a few days last summer in Sichuan Province — including Dujiangyan, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Mianyang, now the headquarters for the relief effort and also hit very hard. I still haven’t heard from any…
