A cool collection of vacuum tubes. So, you know how General Kevin Chilton, STRATCOM Commander, and others have been making to case for the “Reliable Replacement Warhead” by arguing that we must replace the vacuum tubes (more) remaining in the nuclear stockpile? Kingston Reif and I discovered and explain in the Bulletin of the Atomic …
Michael Krepon's Shoebox
by | 2009-04-21 | 3 Comments
We are starting a new feature — Michael Krepon’s shoebox. As you will see from his explanatory note, he has collected quotes over thirty years, largely organized around his book writing projects. (You should check out his most recent book, Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living With the Bomb, Stanford University Press, 2009). …
Das Puffen Boomer
by | 2009-04-20 | 14 Comments
On Thursday and Friday, I attended a workshop sponsored by AAAS and Princeton concerning advances in Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty monitoring and verification. There was considerable discussion of “venting” — when underground nuclear tests eject radioactive material into the atmosphere — as a detection method. There were frequent, grim jokes about BANEBERRY, the worst …
DPRK: U'nha-2 Powered Trajectory
by | 2009-04-20 | 14 Comments
Jan Stupl’s contour of pixel intensity of the U’nha-2 contrail image Jan Stupl, who is a Science Fellow at Stanford’s CISAC this year and who has done an amazing experimental and theoretical analysis of the US Airborne Laser, produced a very important processed image of the DigitalGlobe/Globalsecurity.org image of the U’nha-2 launch. This has allowed …
