Our son has introduced me to Drive By Truckers – a great band, but I’d be disinclined to rent them hotel rooms. My new favorite lyric (the song is Marry Me, in Decoration Day) is “Just cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say.” Those who trash and defend arms …
Revisiting Votkinsk
by | 2009-12-02 | 4 Comments
Nicholas Kralev has an interesting story on the impending closure of the Votkinsk Portal Monitoring Facility. The key grafs confirm that rumor that the Bush Administration made the concession to Russian on ending monitoring at Votkinsk in November 2008: Congressional officials said they were told by the Obama administration that it “got stuck” with a …
Cirincione on Colbert
by | 2009-12-02 | 9 Comments
Dear god. The best part is the sanction, bomb, marry game.
He3 & DHS, Pt2: A Modest Proposal
by | 2009-12-01 | 5 Comments
We usually think of the enrichment power of a centrifuge as fixed by its physical parameters. For a given gas, that of course is true. For enriching uranium hexafluoride, centrifuges with larger rotational speeds (the enrichment power of a centrifuge actually goes as the square of the peripheral speed) and longer rotor lengths have a …
