Two announcements of note. First, the International Panel on Fissile Materials has a cool new blog. (No one tells me anything!) Second, writing on said blog, Zia Mian notes that construction on Pakistan’s Khushab 2 reactor is now probably complete:…
Greetings from Pakistan where, when it comes to nuclear strategy, people say little but act expeditiously. In India, on the other hand, people write much and act slowly. India now has a coterie of first-rate thinkers on nuclear issues besides…
A statement appearing in KCNA on Tuesday — two of them, actually — lambaste the United States and “the puppet army of South Korea” for upcoming annual joint military exercises. Ho hum. Nothing unusual there. Not only do we see…
One of the things that has always stuck in my mind from my childhood addition to science fiction was Robert Heinlein’s explanation of rocket guidance, where a special “cam” was machined to control the trajectory of a rocket every time…
The Missile Defense Agency released a new logo yesterday. I was contemplating some witty commentary regarding alternate logos, maybe two streaks of light just seeming to miss one another, or maybe just moaning that it would be best if they…
Over the years, I’ve experienced great satisfaction watching former students, RAs, and interns sprout wings and assume responsible positions working on nuclear threat reduction. My career counseling often involves answering familiar questions, over and over again. I suspect some ACW…
Laura Rozen in the Politico has written an interesting article on the Nuclear Posture Review. In it, an anonymous US official described the Nuclear Posture Review as “seminal.” I would have picked a different bodily discharge. But, this is the…
Somewhat belatedly, I have come into possession o f GOV/INF/2010/5, which contains Iran’s answer to the proposal to swap its stockpile of low enriched uranium for fuel assemblies for the Tehran Research Reactor. Here is the key graf: …the Islamic…
Many of us have long suspected that the Tinner Family — Father Freidrich and brothers Marco and Urs — Swiss businessman who participated in the AQ Khan network — were also US intelligence assets (See Urs Tinner and Tinner Talks).…
click on the image for a larger version The Atlas V that carried the Solar Dynamics Observatory into orbit on 11 Feb. 2010 created shockwaves that rippled through a cloud layer. I’ve counted 11 distinct shockwaves, marked by arrows in…
