Twenty-Two Cascades Under Vacuum
Iran is not slowing its nuclear program, ok? I know the headlines keep saying it, but it ain’t so — look for yourself. Count the black and gray bars, not just the black ones. The most recent IAEA report on…
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August 2009 IAEA Reports on Iran, Syria
IAEA reports on Iran and Syria. Have at ‘em.
India's H Bomb Revisited
Yes, Virginia, India’s H-bomb fizzled. K Santhanam (who was director of test site preparations for India’s 1998 nuclear tests; pictured above, handing the firing keys to the range safety officer) has admitted what everyone else has known for a long…
ASAT Test Bans
The last serious debate over ASAT testing occurred in the 1980s. In addition to advocating the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan administration officials pushed for the testing of a kinetic energy ASAT system employing the Air Force’s F-15 as a launch…
Nuclear Warfare
By no means do I wish to pick on Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, who was only repeating a common misconception in an NPR segment this evening when she said: On June 7, 1981, Israel launched the first confirmed military strike ever against…
Persbo & Hibbs on ElBaradei
Six bucks or not, Andreas Persbo and Mark Hibbs have a must read profile of outgoing IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: The IAEA after ElBaradei. As ElBaradei’s tenure reaches its close, a deep and troubling…
START Follow On Sessions
I keep hearing that there have been four rounds of START Follow On negotiations — but that omits two Presidential Summits, a meeting between lead negotiators in Rome and at least two “experts” meetings. So I’ve tried to collect all…
Iran Week
Yes, yes, it is shameless, but I can’t resist pointing out that NPR is running a boatload of analytical, talking-head-driven pieces on Iran this week. (At least in this instance, NPR is not the Congressionally mandated bureaucratic process, but the…
KSLV-1 and the MTCR
Mating the Indigenous KSLV-1 Second Stage with the Angara It always helps to go back and read the original documents, even to things you think you know fairly well. I found myself doing that recently when a number of (…
National Academies CTBT Study
As many of you know, the Obama Administration has tasked the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control (NAS–CISAC) to prepare a study on technical issues related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The National Academies…