The General Accounting Office has a released a report, Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO, on the B61 Lifetime Extension Program. Among the many, many amazing details is a very easy-to-read schedule of planned LEPs (see above). But the report …
Osama
by | 2011-05-02 | 85 Comments
Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city. The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts. The city’s most prominent feature is Kakul, the Pakistani military academy where outstanding recruits begin their studies and service careers. On April 23rd, the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, visited Kakul to …
The Thing Is Superb Physics
by | 2011-04-30 | 19 Comments
“Laßt mich in Ruhe mit euren Gewissensbissen, das ist doch so schöne Physik!” –Enrico Fermi, arguing with his colleagues on the Manhattan Project about the ethical implications of developing the atomic bomb. What? I thought Enrico Fermi was Italian! And why were they arguing in German at Los Alamos? Didn’t the security people freak out? …
A Belated, Happy Easter
by | 2011-04-26 | 21 Comments
Reader MP sends along a picture of nine easter eggs — one for each state with nuclear weapons
