Edward Teller, a refugee from Hungary, loved to play the piano. While at Los Alamos working on the H-bomb, he kept his colleagues awake at night playing Beethoven. Vaughn Williams penned symphonies. His “The Lark Ascending” contains the most pacific notes ever written, at least to my ear. Williams was an ambulance driver during World …
Syria’s Tibnah Salt Mine Revisited
by | 2010-12-12 | 10 Comments
One of the more important questions about Syria’s nuclear program has got to be, Just where is it, anyway? Those of us who were initially skeptical of reports that the Dayr al-Zawr facility had been a reactor could point to the almost complete absence of ancillary buildings at the site. Where would fresh fuel be …
Britain’s Independent Deterent 2
by | 2010-12-09 | 21 Comments
After a visit to Aldermaston a few years ago, I noted that “no, the United Kingdom does not in any way, shape, or form have an independent nuclear deterrent.” In 2009, then-UK PM Gordon Brown announced the UK would be willing to consider reducing the number of Trident submarines from four to three. This came …
A Note To Readers
by | 2010-12-09 | 29 Comments
I know that a lot of my readers have .gov and .mil addresses, which means that I need to take special care about how I treat classified material on this website. I’ve spent a few days talking to people, and there are no easy answers. Each element of the government seems to have its own …
