Avatar photoKlaatu Barada Nikto

The nutjobs at it again, suggesting that aliens — extraterrestrials, not undocumented workers — are monitoring US “nuclear sites.” Lee Speigel of AOL’s Weird News Team offers a nice summary: UFOs have monitored and possibly tampered with American nuclear weapons, according to a group of former Air Force officers who will make their claims public …

Avatar photoBrain Drain

This is a photo I took on February 14, 1992 at one of the two Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, in a closed city known then as Chelyabinsk-70, and now renamed Snezhinsk. Seated in front of the dusty blackboard is visiting U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker …

Avatar photoIran, the NAM, and Amano

Since 1985 I have spent two years and four months of my life in Vienna—not bad if you consider that I never have owned or rented a flat there. I’m right now halfway through another Vienna stay with one week down, and one week to go. A lot of those two-plus years went by in …

Avatar photoA Curious Sort of Leak

I am fascinated by this curious “intelligence issue” that Senator Risch cited in an unsuccessful effort to delay the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on the resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty. It seems, according to a pair of stories by Josh Rogin (Risch Tries to Halt Vote on New START Over Undisclosed …