And who says the National Laboratories are having trouble maintaining their relevance in the post-Cold War environment? Sandia National Laboratories news release February 15, 2006 Sandia researchers develop low-density, environmentally friendly foam that may also be the answer to surf…
I finally dug up the DTRA brochure, Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Indicators (March 2004), describing the signatures that distinguish a nuclear test site from a conventional mining operation: Some features common to legitimate mining and excavation activities can suggest nuclear…
My alma mater, Augustana College, home of the Vikings, hosts an annual college debate tournament. This year’s trophy for first place in the open division? [A Viking] battle axe—complete with blade guard and liability waiver. [snip] It stands 3 1/2…
I have an article in the Nieman Watchdog—a publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University—about the relationship between the NPT and the showdown with Iran, the gist of which is basically … The vast majority of states…
Earlier this week, Dafna Linzer had a long, detailed story (and online chat) on intelligence found by German intelligence on a laptop computer stolen by an Iranian citizen in 2004. I am going to write a four-part series looking at…
Bureaucracies frequently matter more than the personalities at the top of an organization, particularly when that organization is the United States Department of State. On February 6, the Wall Street Journal penned a long article that might have been called,…
These are the TPMCafe posts from a couple of weeks ago. They can all be found here. The more interesting are listed below (“interesting” being a relative term, of course). Is Iran Pursuing Nuclear Weapons? Iran’s Options Iran and the…
Four years ago, U.N. inspectors concluded that Iraq had failed to .. account for large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, weapons capable of killing millions. In last month’s declaration, Iraq again failed to account for those weapons. The Iraqi…
Dafna Linzer has a detailed account in the Post on the contents of that laptop. I’ll try to write more this afternoon.
Whether India should place its developmental Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam under IAEA safeguards is shaping up as the most contentious issue regarding the creation of a “separation plan” Inda nuclear facilities. (See: Safeguarding Breeder Reactors, January 24, 2006.) If…
