Click on the image for a larger version (The 26 March 2009 image is from ISIS) If you haven’t seen it, check out ISIS’s latest report on North Korea’s missile launch preparation which shows an image of the launch site taken on 26 March, 2009. Strangely, ISIS seems to emphasize the crane on top of …
Minimum Means of Something
by | 2009-03-25 | 13 Comments
At the end of an article about the National Academies glossary project, Lionel Beehner in SEED Magazine mentions the trouble that beset the translation of my book into Chinese: That means translation will likely remain a sensitive and sometimes contentious subject in US-China relations, especially in matters of science. Take American nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis’s …
Cosmic Clockwork
by | 2009-03-24 | 17 Comments
Click on the image for a larger version Just how much warning do you need? If a strange satellite came within 10 km of your satellite every month, would you start to worry? Apparently not, not that is, if you are Iridium. I have been puzzling over the probability of one satellite, even if it’s …
Ripping Off Ronen Bergman
by | 2009-03-24 | 10 Comments
The blog-o-sphere is all worked up over an op-ed (in German) by Hans Rühle claiming that Iran funded Syria’s Al Kibar reactor. Central to Rühle’s stardom is the credence lent to his claims by his former position — he is the “former chief of the planning staff of the German Defense Ministry.” (He is the …
