Officially, the entire country is dry. But our people are highly skilled. Some of the stills I saw there were works of art. —Aleksandr Bolgarov describing how Russian personnel at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant cope with Prohibition in Iran Aleksandr Bolgarov is a Russian engineer who spent two years at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant …
Iran Marketing Missiles?
by | 2011-08-08 | 23 Comments
I’ve been working on an absolutely gigantic and totally inconclusive post about Iran-Venezuela ballistic missile cooperation. (Short version: They either are or they aren’t. That concludes my prepared remarks. Thank you.) In the course of digging through that mess, I came across this very interesting nugget in the 721 report for 2010: “Iran has marketed …
Liston vs. Ali
by | 2011-08-07 | 4 Comments
Two visuals dominated the inner sanctum of Barack Obama’s Senate office in the Hart Building. One was a life-sized oil portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The other was a huge blow up of Neil Leifer’s famous ring-side photograph of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston during their 1965 championship rematch in (of all …
Talking Warheads on EMP
by | 2011-08-03 | 26 Comments
Patrick Disney, who runs the Talking Warheads blog, has a published an article in the Atlantic about the threat (or lack thereof) from EMP. It is part of a broader paper he wrote in his graduate program. Patrick asked to write something for the blog and, since Patrick is a nice fellow and EMP is …
