Mobile Home/Meth Lab/SCIF
I … I just … no … this is so wrong. Let’s say you live with your boyfriend in a mobile home, from which he supports himself by selling methamphetamines. Query: What could possibly be worse than having the neighbors…
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Making Iranian Uranium
Say that three times fast. And, yes that is a picture of Iran’s 164 centrifuge cascade. Reuters’ Mark Heinrich reports that Iran has completed a second 164 centrigue cascade at the Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant—but that the Iranians are…
The best move is not to play
Yes, you know exactly which movie that line is from. War Games is fun for several reasons (including the putting of the phone on some receiver thing to dial and connect to somewhere. I clearly need one of those). But…
Buster
If Arms Control Wonk.com had a mascot, it would be Mark Fiore’s Buster, the friendly nuke. (That or maybe Nick Neutron. Tough call.) Anyway, Fiore’s Axis of Oops is brilliant. He joins the The Onion in using satire to better…
What's Perpetuity Among Friends?
Momentarily lost in the hullaballoo over North Korea’s probable failed nuclear test is the last state to test a nuclear weapon as well as lie about the yield: India. Oh, they are going to love that statement on the Bharat…
Garwin & Von Hippel on NORK Nuke Test
ACA just posted an analysis from Richard L. Garwin and Frank N. von Hippel on the DPRK nuclear test. It contains some evidence that I don’t think has been made public before. Here’s an example: …it is not surprising that…
Shorter Bill Arkin
Arkin takes on a massive straw-figure in a post which says something about North Korea and nuclear weapons. Allow me to paraphrase: Unnamed “Ambulance Chasers of the Apocalypse” point to the dangers of a nuclear-armed North Korea – as well…
Terror Farm, Part 1
Peter Zimmerman and I have the cover article in Foreign Policy magazine (subscription only), arguing that nuclear weapons are a bargain for the large, sophisticated terrorist organization. We basically asked, were we a terrorist group, how would we do it…
New National Space Policy, Also Silly
Hey, I somehow missed that we have a new national space policy. (Unclassified version). Last I checked, the thing was in Draft 30-something —30-something, by the way: not hyperbole—and another victim of the totally dysfunctional interagency process. Anyway, the key…
Department of Silly
I was re-reading some ACT pieces last night and came across a gem from SecState Rice this past July on US North Korea policy. Here’s the quote in full: I just want to say to China that the responsibility that…