Your Fact Checker Failed You
I just picked up a copy of Richard Clarke’s Your Government Failed You (HarperCollins, 26 bucks). A light, easy read. The chapter on military issues is a little too breezy — it covers way too much ground with far too…
2008
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Kessler on Chris Hill
With the rumors that Hill will leave any day now swirling, the WaPo’s Glenn Kessler has a long, front-page profile of Assistant Secretary Chris Hill (“Mid-Level Official Steered U.S. Shift On North Korea,” May 26, 2008). Maybe Hill is finally…
iPhone Blogging
Greetings from Halifax! I am attending a conference hosted by the Canadian International Council on U.S. Nuclear Strategy. Joseph Pilat is giving a pretty good talk about NATO and nuclear weapons. I am playing around with my new toy (and…
Tracing Paper Causes Nuclear Sub Accident
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks and then have a conference out in Monterey so my posting may be a bit sporadic (read non-existent) until I get back. I hope to visit the museum at Los Alamos…
RRW Dinged in Defense Authorization Bill
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…
Lessons from the RSA
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…
Iran in the Nuclear Suppliers Group?
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, Tuesday @ NAF, 12:15
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…
Earthquake Update
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…
I'm clean
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…