As Kingston over at Nukes of Hazard notes, the folks at the Kansas City Plant presented Secretary of Energy Steven Chu with a little plaque showing “1960s-era vacuum tubes from the B61 radars” and “RF-IC based multi-chip module for the next generation radar applications.” Vacuum tubes, and their misuse as an RRW talking point, have …
Predicting Proliferation
by | 2009-11-05 | 5 Comments
Over the years, many experts have predicted proliferation cascades, but worst cases have yet to unfold. The current variation on this theme – reinforced by arms controllers as well as hard liners — is that, once Iran gets the Bomb and North Korea cannot be dissuaded from giving up its nuclear weapon capabilities, other countries …
Iran Expands Gchine U Mine
by | 2009-11-04 | 24 Comments
This is a joint post by Jeffrey Lewis, Flynt Leverett, and Hillary Mann Leverett. This post is cross-posted at Flynt and Hillary’s blog, Race for Iran Bloomberg’s Jonathan Tirone has a story today revealing that Iran has dramatically expanded operations at its Gchine uranium mine. Tirone worked closely with Jeffrey Lewis at the New America …
North Korean Plutonium: Yawn
by | 2009-11-04 | 3 Comments
Lost in the hubbub over North Korea’s claim to have completed reprocessing of its remaining spent fuel rods is one small point: this isn’t news. It’s a reminder only. Here’s what the KCNA news service has just stated: In this period, the DPRK restarted the reprocessing facilities and successfully completed the reprocessing of 8,000 spent …
