Update from Tokyo
Ok, so that earthquake joke I made the other day is no longer funny. Apparently, those quakes were just the warm-up act for the massive 8.9 behemoth that struck us today. I was just exiting the Tokyo subway when it…
2011
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Rokkasho Visit
Greetings from the land of the earthquake! Yesterday’s visit to Rokkasho was earth-shaking – literally. Well, the earth did shake, although I know correlation is not causation. During lunch at the Rokkasho site, we felt an earthquake. Then another large…
Assured Destruction
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his…
Off to Japan
I am going to be traveling through Japan this coming week on a hectic schedule visiting a variety of Japanese facilities including Rokkasho and Japan Steel Works. Posting has been light anyway, but this week I have an excuse.
Hong Kong as Transshipment Point
Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out…
Hello world!
Hello out there! Since Geoffrey Forden stopped blogging, ArmsControlWonk has been a little bit light in the ‘rocket science’ department – so Jeffrey asked me to fill that gap (frequent readers of this blog’s comment section may already have stumbled…
The Adjacent Possible
Pardon the oversimplification, but Hawks and Doves, for all their polarity, are driven by the same basic motivation — anxiety. Both are pessimists at heart, worried that mankind’s worst instincts will be realized. Hawks worry about being disadvantaged by very…
Bushehr Cooling Pump
After the IAEA DG report on Iran noted that the Iranians were unloading the fuel from Bushehr, Bill Broad and David Sanger provided several column inches of speculation about whether STUXNET had struck again. Now, Bill Broad reports that ROSATOM…
GOV/2011/7 & GOV/2011/8
It was a long day — I was giving a talk! In any event, everyone and their grandmothers have copies of the IAEA Director-General’s Reports on Iran and Syria. But here they are anyway.
Chinese Help on Khushab-4?
It isn’t every day that I read a New York Times editorial and start making phone calls but it did happen this weekend right after I arrived in the Nation’s Capital for a stay here and a week of hard…