Greetings from San Jose
This is the pool — which is where I’ve been working all day and yesterday. Also, I ate at a place advertising “The World’s Best Burritos.” I promise something substantive soon.
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RoadRunner
The Department of Energy has announced that a new computer to be housed at Los Alamos — named RoadRunner after the state bird of New Mexico — is the first computer in the world to break the petaflop barrier, or…
Indian PM on Disarmament
Greetings from Delhi. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opened the conference, Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by lighting a lamp (left) and giving a speech (right). (I tried to convince George Perkovich to have a lamp lighting…
Did Pakistan Test a North Korean Bomb?
Golly, I had no idea that Qatar Airlines has an entire premium Terminal for First and Business class patrons. Wow. The other day a reader, Tom, asked about rumors that one of Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998 involved North Korean…
More Nuclear Mistakes
Greetings from Istanbul. Several people have sent me stories about the latest kerfuffle involving the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, which failed a nuclear surety inspection, and the separate decision by SECDEF Gates to fire Air Force Chief of…
Call Me Magellan
Or Ferdinand. Either way I am set to begin circumnavigating the globe. So, dear friends and readers, drop me a line if I am in your neck of the woods at armscontrolwonk [at] gmail.com 1. Istanbul, Turkey. June 6-8. Attending…
North Korean Reprocessing Campaigns
I’ve been writing the same blog post for four days. Time to just publish it. Thanks to McClatchey’s Warren Strobel and a trio of articles by the New York Times’ Helene Cooper (1, 2 and 3), we now know that…
Swiss Shred Tinner Docs; Khan Talks
I still can’t believe the Swiss shredded the evidence. AP’s Hanspeter Haefliger reports that Swiss authorities, under the supervision of the IAEA, shredded many documents relating to the Urs Tinner-AQ Khan case: The documents formed part of a case against…
Milbank on Hadley
I dunno, maybe it was the orange hunting vest. Or his comparison of the ex-parrot and the ex-candidate. But I think Dana Milbank, particularly in his columns for Washington Sketch, is the funniest, most insightful chronicler of the tribes of…
Rapture
Standing on the metro this morning, I noticed the above. I wasn’t really sure whether the artist was warning against the subpop indie rockers or CBGB favs, but the iPod remained dance-punk free for the duration of the ride.