Wouldn’t it be spectacular if we promoted nonproliferation talks the way we promote Monster Truck Rallies, Metal concerts and the other staples of my Midwestern upbringing? WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY! WEDNESDAY! ONE DAY ONLY. HOUSTON WOOD. DAVID ALBRIGHT. JEFFREY LEWIS. YOU’LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU WILL ONLY USE THE EDGE. Yeah, well. Houston Wood …
IR-1 Estimates Revisited
by | 2010-01-19 | 11 Comments
[Update | Feb. 11, 2010. Estimates from the new ISIS analysis by David Albright and Christina Walrond, “Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock,” now appear at the end of the table. The paper contains a number of different estimates derived from different sources; the summary in the last two lines of the table doesn’t fully …
Beidou Update
by | 2010-01-18 | 6 Comments
click on the image for a larger version The most recent satellite reported to be joining China’s constellation of Beidou navigation satellites is shown in yellow. An example of a geostationary Beidou satellite is shown in white and China’s one and only navigation satellite in a medium Earth orbit (MEO) is shown in green. The …
When Disaster Strikes the Capital
by | 2010-01-18 | 3 Comments
Above: The Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, after and before. Credit: Lisandro Suero Here’s how former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in an interview with Esquire, summed up the state of governance in Haiti after last week’s earthquake: The UN was, in effect, decapitated. The Haitian government was disabled by the destruction of the presidential palace and …
