Janne Nolan is coming by tomorrow (Tuesday) to talk about the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review and whether it will matter. Posturing About the Future of Nuclear Weapons Predictions for the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review The next President will conduct yet…
Mark Hibbs, writing in Nucleonics Week (subscription required), points out that that damage to China’s nuclear weapons facilities was slight: According to local sources, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, CAEP, located in Mianyang, close to the epicenter of the…
One picks up a variety of strange souvenirs and ephemera in this business. My end of year dosimetry report from Los Alamos strikes me as one. We had to wear dosimeters when we went to see the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic…
Glenn Kessler reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the US Intelligence Community has revised its estimate of the amount of plutonium separated at Yongbyon. U.S. intelligence analysts have prepared a fresh estimate of the size of North Korea’s stockpile…
A friend observes that the Box-on-the-Euphrates may have been modeled to appear, at first glance, like a ruined Byzantine fortress. The other three images are of a Byzantine fortress in Zippori (Sepphoris) National Park, Israel. Same friend sends along some…
That’s the title of a disturbing new study conducted by a team of experts from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. It concludes that “the prospect of hunger-related deaths occurring in the next several months is approaching certainty.” Here is…
I spent a few days last summer in Sichuan Province — including Dujiangyan, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Mianyang, now the headquarters for the relief effort and also hit very hard. I still haven’t heard from any…
The PrepCon ended on Friday, and the group Reaching Critical Will has posted a bunch of documents from it, including the Chair’s controversial Factual Summary of the conference proceedings and a really bizarre presentation to NGOs by the Iranian representative…
ISIS have released an impressive and comprehensive report detailing the deception techniques used by the Syrians for the Box on the Euphrates (Andreas has already beaten me to blog it—you obviously haven’t got enough work to do, mate!). It answers…
Over at Verification, Andreas has put up the first two in a series of posts commemorating the tenth anniversary of India and Pakistan’s test series. Well worth checking out.
