This past August, a Russian TEL carrying an SS-25 ICBM broke down along a road in Russia, causing massive traffic jam. It made the news immediately, replete with images of the disabled TEL and angry locals stuck in the traffic snarl. A colleague pointed this out, as an illustration that we live in a very …
Making Messes in Space
by | 2011-11-29 | 15 Comments
The only top-of-the-charts space-age instrumental was silenced by the highest yield US atmospheric test ever conducted. OK, I’m taking literary license. Readers of a certain age will recall Telstar, the satellite and the top-40 single. Telstar enabled the transmission of images across the Atlantic on our black-and-white TV screens, just as the British music invasion …
Aging and Assertion
by | 2011-11-21 | 9 Comments
Hard problems keep earning compound interest, but advanced age and distance from complexity can act as a wonderful solvent. Now that I qualify for Medicare, this syndrome bothers me less than hearing simple solutions from those who cannot use the aging process as an excuse. In arms control debates, there is no shortage of easy …
Site F near Sabha
by | 2011-11-20 | 20 Comments
I have been sort of amused that one news outlet after another keeps sending reporters to Site F near Sabha, where the Libyans store their stockpile of uranium yellowcake. CNN, Daily Telegraph, Reuters. Am I missing anyone? Anyway, I figured I would post the coordinates of the site: 27° 4’0.10″N, 14°34’18.62″E
