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In all the excitement and hubbub about Iran’s launch of the Omid satellite yesterday, there was other news that should warrant our attention. North Korea has, apparently, been seen shipping large missile bodies to its Western launch range. While described…
“Kavoshgar” Launch Site shown in yellow; Satellite and rocket body shown in white There will be plenty of time to discuss the security implications of Iran’s Omid satellite but for right now, let’s take a minute to appreciate the technological…
Iran claims it placed a satellite, Omid, in orbit. I’ve uploaded a video from Fars. Mehr and ISNA have photos of the launch. More to come. Where’s Forden? Update: Thanks to my fantastic readers (including Brian Weeden, see the comments),…
Lally Weymouth interviews Mohamed ElBaradei in the Post. It’s a total trainwreck. A sampling: Q: Some in the United States claim that between 2003 and 2007, you protected Iran because you did not want to see a U.S. military attack…
The CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) has a new blog. It’s surprisingly good though the author is never identified.
Well, well, well. Look who has a website. Next thing you know, he’ll be blogging.
What is the difference between natural uranium and dirty laundry? The Laundromat throws the dirty water away while the enricher keeps the depleted uranium. That makes doing the laundry a service while EURODIF keeping the tails makes them a producer…
You know how people dig throwback jerseys? I was surprised when I saw the cover the Bob Zarate’s edited volume on Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Nuclear Heuristics. It’s a throwback cover, directly referencing Roberta Wohlstetter’s classic, Pearl Harbor: Warning and…
I have a new toy: it’s called HyperCFD and it calculates a number of interesting quantities for bodies of rotation that are moving faster than the speed of sound. I bought it because I was interested in the stability of…
A milestone for the Wonk yesterday: 10,000 comments submitted from readers! The 10,000th comment came from Major Lemon who asked whether Semipalatinsk stills glows in the dark. Something oddly appropriate about that… So hats off to Jeffrey who started this…
