RoadRunner
The Department of Energy has announced that a new computer to be housed at Los Alamos — named RoadRunner after the state bird of New Mexico — is the first computer in the world to break the petaflop barrier, or…
June 2008
26 posts
Indian PM on Disarmament
Greetings from Delhi. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opened the conference, Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by lighting a lamp (left) and giving a speech (right). (I tried to convince George Perkovich to have a lamp lighting…
Did Pakistan Test a North Korean Bomb?
Golly, I had no idea that Qatar Airlines has an entire premium Terminal for First and Business class patrons. Wow. The other day a reader, Tom, asked about rumors that one of Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998 involved North Korean…
More Nuclear Mistakes
Greetings from Istanbul. Several people have sent me stories about the latest kerfuffle involving the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, which failed a nuclear surety inspection, and the separate decision by SECDEF Gates to fire Air Force Chief of…
Call Me Magellan
Or Ferdinand. Either way I am set to begin circumnavigating the globe. So, dear friends and readers, drop me a line if I am in your neck of the woods at armscontrolwonk [at] gmail.com 1. Istanbul, Turkey. June 6-8. Attending…
North Korean Reprocessing Campaigns
I’ve been writing the same blog post for four days. Time to just publish it. Thanks to McClatchey’s Warren Strobel and a trio of articles by the New York Times’ Helene Cooper (1, 2 and 3), we now know that…