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I am recovering after bringing home an Italian bug of some sort: Grazie mille, Italia. For some reason, the topic of autonomous proximity operations keeps coming up (See my previous post on the BX-1 panic.) The Air Force is going…
The view, this morning, of the UN plaza in Vienna (where the IAEA and CTBTO are based) passed onto me by a contact. Thank you, contact. Happy change day!
…and the middle one (after surveying all the beautiful Italian people) says “Know any good books about missiles?” And the last one says “Why, yes! I like the books from the ‘50s and ‘60s.” And the first one in says…
The debate continues over Yousry Abushady’s remarkable appearance on Egyptian television. The interview is notable, as one observer notes, because Abushady “is speaking in his personal capacity, which is soon-to-be retired.” You just don’t see IAEA officials doing television interviews…
As Jeffrey discussed on Saturday, “some” in the US intelligence community (aka DIA) have “increasing concerns that North Korea has an ongoing covert uranium enrichment program”. David Albright, in Glenn Kessler’s story, claims this is based on discovering a single…
Spelled out in Anthrax spores Disease is a funny thing. The general tendency of the public is to blame the ill person. Nothing illustrates this better than the way societies treat people who have acquired AIDS/HIV. However, the public health…
Greetings from Milan. For reasons that I will decline to speculate on, Steve Hadley decided to take an internal debate within the intelligence community and make it very public: This is especially true because some in the intelligence community have…
click on the image for a larger version A recent London Times article reports that Israel is worried about Hamas using its artillery rockets to shell the Dimona reactor. I thought it would be interesting to calculate the probability of…
File size of daily orbital parameters distributed from the NASA space-track website. This is proportional to the number of satellites tracked each day, or at least listed as tracked each day. I’ve been trying to recall all the space-derived information…
Friend of Wonk, Mark Fitzpatrick, pointed me in the direction of an interview on Egyptian TV with, Yousry Abushady, a section head in the IAEA Department of Safeguards, about the alleged Syrian reactor. Part 2 can be found here. Speaking…
