Greetings from the land of the earthquake! Yesterday’s visit to Rokkasho was earth-shaking – literally. Well, the earth did shake, although I know correlation is not causation. During lunch at the Rokkasho site, we felt an earthquake. Then another large earthquake woke me up last night. Now, we are getting hit by a third as …
Assured Destruction
by | 2011-03-08 | 21 Comments
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his coterie of civilian “whiz kids,” and their attachment to cost-effectiveness methods alien to the Pentagon …
Off to Japan
by | 2011-03-07 | 1 Comment
I am going to be traveling through Japan this coming week on a hectic schedule visiting a variety of Japanese facilities including Rokkasho and Japan Steel Works. Posting has been light anyway, but this week I have an excuse.
Hong Kong as Transshipment Point
by | 2011-03-03 | 5 Comments
Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out of this email exchange between an Iranian going by “Ali” and a Taiwanese businessman, Chen …
