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 …
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 …
