Hans has the new National Air and Space Intelligence Center Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat. Lots and lots of pretty pictures, especially of the DF-31, as well as new information. (Lest you think I just love missile-porn — which I course I do — the value of pictures is the IC identification of the particular …
Show me the FOGBANK
by | 2009-06-07 | 4 Comments
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. …
