Michael Katz Hyman sends along this brilliantly funny manual, NSRB DOC. 130 Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950). Remember kids, “Beyond 2 miles, the explosion will cause practically no deaths at all.” The atomic age inspired all sorts of “you can…
A couple of weeks ago, Judy Miller made a passing reference to “a ‘Lessons Learned’ paper for an arms-control newsletter” written by Ambassador Donald Mahley, Senior WMD Representative in Libya. I was like, what Lessons Learned paper? So was Kerr.…
Christopher Stone, “a space/missile officer with Air Force Space Command-Reserve Component”, has written an article in the Space Review blaming “certain circles” and “political” reasons for the lack of orbital strike weapons. Stone omitted, as a reason, the laws of…
Hans Blix came out against the US-India nuclear deal, kind of—according to a press release from Ed Markey’s (D-MA) office: “I am concerned about the impact on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. These concerns could be met if India, Pakistan,…
Geoff Forden at MIT has a sweet tour of Iran’s nuclear facilities for Google Earth—including Arak, where for some strange reason the Bush Administration believes Iran should be able to produce two bombs worth of plutonium a year. (WHAT? You…
I can’t make this stuff up. Via John Fleck.
BBC has a fav pic that uses for Iran’s nuclear program (right). I noticed it once, didn’t immediately recognize what it was, then forgot to follow up. Someone asked about the image in the comments section and, voila, the Arms…
So, by now, everyone knows that a draft version of the 5+1 offer to Iran is available on the “internets”. I spent most of the day making phone calls and have a pretty decent idea how the document hit the…
This is who they should have consulted… Knight-Ridder reported yesterday on this article by Dean Rust. Read the whole thing, but I think this excerpt give some idea of his conclusion: Yet, the botched implementation has already led many experienced…
You have probably noticed that a draft of the US offer to Iran has hit the internet. I’ve been on the phone all day and have a big post in the works, probably for tomorrow morning. The important thing to…
