India’s CIRUS reactor in Google Earth (top) and Bhuvan (bottom) I love Google Earth and don’t know how I could have ever done my job before it was invented. (The love is apparently not mutual since Google censored my work on China’s ASAT, at least in China.) However, not everyone loves Google Earth (GE). Perhaps …
Iran NSPD Coda
by | 2009-08-14 | 6 Comments
Long-time readers may recall that I was fairly vexed by the utter inability of the Bush Administration to produce a policy on Iran. And by “produce” I mean actually write an an honest-to-goodness National Security President Directive that the President signs. I observed that they never got around to it (Anybody got an Iran policy?, …
Playing Peek-A-Boo With Nuclear Opacity
by | 2009-08-14 | 13 Comments
A picture is worth… You already know the saying. But what’s a picture worth when it comes without a caption? This may sound like an off-brand Zen koan, but it’s actually the windup to a small exercise in decoding ambiguous nuclear signaling. Earlier this month, Amir Mizroch grabbed a rather unusual screen image from a …
The Buddha on Arms Control
by | 2009-08-13 | 10 Comments
One of the many benefits of foreign travel is discovering what hotel nightstands offer as their equivalent to the Gideon Bible. In 1996, while spending the night at a hotel near Narita airport awaiting a morning flight to Beijing, I opened the drawer to find The Teachings of the Buddha. Can the sufferings of arms …
