Pardon the oversimplification, but Hawks and Doves, for all their polarity, are driven by the same basic motivation — anxiety. Both are pessimists at heart, worried that mankind’s worst instincts will be realized. Hawks worry about being disadvantaged by very bad actors and by the Bomb’s use. Doves worry about any use of the Bomb, …
Bushehr Cooling Pump
by | 2011-02-28 | 13 Comments
After the IAEA DG report on Iran noted that the Iranians were unloading the fuel from Bushehr, Bill Broad and David Sanger provided several column inches of speculation about whether STUXNET had struck again. Now, Bill Broad reports that ROSATOM has offered a more “prosaic” explanation — a failed cooling pump that is about my …
GOV/2011/7 & GOV/2011/8
by | 2011-02-25 | 18 Comments
It was a long day — I was giving a talk! In any event, everyone and their grandmothers have copies of the IAEA Director-General’s Reports on Iran and Syria. But here they are anyway.
Chinese Help on Khushab-4?
by | 2011-02-22 | 26 Comments
It isn’t every day that I read a New York Times editorial and start making phone calls but it did happen this weekend right after I arrived in the Nation’s Capital for a stay here and a week of hard work here. On Sunday, a Times leader writer had this to say about Pakistan’s plutonium …
