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 …
Apollo-Soyuz Redux?
by | 2013-01-22 | 3 Comments
Barack Obama’s second inaugural showcased a President who wants to mainstream Progressivism the way that Ronald Reagan mainstreamed Conservatism. President Obama is an extraordinarily gifted man. He accomplished far more during his first term than is generally acknowledged. Historians are likely to be more forgiving than the President’s supporters about his lapses in framing public …
Energomash Research Complex
by | 2013-01-21 | 7 Comments
Well, this is pretty cool. I keep pointing out that Russians love the internet — and place silly amounts on sensitive national security information online, whether it is a jack-knifed ICBM, a rifle factory under construction in Venezuela or ballistic missile submarines burning like a Roman candle. Somehow I missed that, in 2011, a Russian blogger/urban …
Sanger and Shanker Confusion
by | 2013-01-18 | 29 Comments
They don’t look anything alike. Well, this is irritating. David Sanger and Thom Shanker have published a really interesting article that is irredeemably fouled up by their profound confusion about North Korean missiles. The lede of the article is that “North Korea is moving mobile missile launchers around the country, some carrying a new generation of …
