Well, it’s late at night and my Scotch is empty. So I will make this quick. Here is an image (and .pdf) of the 1998 UK document on Agent 15 that I mentioned in my column for Foreign Policy (Buzz Bomb: Why everyone’s wrong about Assad’s zombie gas). It’s not much to look at: The reference …
Ward Wilson Wednesdays
by | 2013-01-24 | 23 Comments
Yeah, I know it’s Thursday — GET OFF MY CASE. My colleague at the Monterey Institute, Ward Wilson, has a new book out entitled Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Ward and I disagree about some things, but I am always up for an argument about the epistemology of nuclear deterrence and manual approaches to elephant …
North Korea’s Juche Rocket
by | 2013-01-23 | 25 Comments
Less than a month ago, we were still getting acquainted with the salvaged chunks and bits of the Unha-3 first stage that South Korea’s Navy had hoisted from the watery deep. It seems that some people have been busy in the meantime, because a multinational, mostly South Korean team of experts (52 of them, by …
Uranium in Saharan Sands
by | 2013-01-22 | 12 Comments
Unlike the petroleum we import, most of the uranium which fuels the world’s 400-plus nuclear power reactors comes from politically stable regions. If a lot more reactors are built, and the demand for uranium significantly increases, more of it might come from less-secure sources. In anticipation of a nuclear renaissance, investors tempted by speculative price increases during the last decade have been searching for uranium in places off the …
