Iran is not slowing its nuclear program, ok? I know the headlines keep saying it, but it ain’t so — look for yourself. Count the black and gray bars, not just the black ones. The most recent IAEA report on Iran makes clear that Iran continues the pattern noted on this blog of installing about …
August 2009 IAEA Reports on Iran, Syria
by | 2009-08-28 | 7 Comments
IAEA reports on Iran and Syria. Have at ‘em.
India's H Bomb Revisited
by | 2009-08-27 | 41 Comments
Yes, Virginia, India’s H-bomb fizzled. K Santhanam (who was director of test site preparations for India’s 1998 nuclear tests; pictured above, handing the firing keys to the range safety officer) has admitted what everyone else has known for a long time — that India’s 1998 test of a thermonuclear device was unsuccessful: “Based upon the …
ASAT Test Bans
by | 2009-08-27 | 9 Comments
The last serious debate over ASAT testing occurred in the 1980s. In addition to advocating the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan administration officials pushed for the testing of a kinetic energy ASAT system employing the Air Force’s F-15 as a launch vehicle (above). The Soviet Union had previously tested, with decidedly mixed results, a co-orbital interceptor …
