The plot thickens, thanks to Frank Munger’s continued pursuit of FOGBANK. Munger has a pair of blog posts (Is there more to the story about the W76? Y-12: fogbank produced in Spring 2008) that put NNSA and POGO on a collision course. Only one of them can be accurately describing the reason for the delayed …
Ike's Nuclear Legacy
by | 2009-06-06 | 13 Comments
I proudly bear the name of an uncle who died at Anzio. The military cemetery nearby at Netunno cradles almost as many GI’s as those buried in Normandy. As we remember D-Day and pay homage to those who fought on distant shores, let’s open the shoe box files to Dwight David Eisenhower. Ike’s most unfortunate …
Thirteen Cascades in Vacuum
by | 2009-06-06 | 12 Comments
Just a short note from Amman about the IAEA report on Iran … In February, after the last IAEA DG report came out, I warned readers not to buy IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei’s analysis that “the pace of installing and bringing centrifuges into operation [in Iran] has slowed quite considerably since August…” Quite the opposite. …
DPRK: U'nha-2 Elevation at Staging
by | 2009-06-06 | 7 Comments
Never take anything for granted. I’m afraid I put off something that Peter Brown, who is always on top of the interesting stories in Asia as he writes for the Asia Times, has been bugging me about. Sorry Peter! I thought I knew what the answer would be and I put off calculating the elevation …
