Avatar photo212 and Counting

click on the image for a larger version The image on the left shows the positions of the space debris 30 minutes after the collision while the image on the right shows them roughly 10 days later (now, as I write this) I’m not going to do this every time a new batch of debris …

Avatar photoIran Panic Induced By Lousy Reporting

Another IAEA DG Report on Iran. Cue the panic. Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought! Iran understates uranium stocks to IAEA! Iran holds enough uranium for bomb! Only the exclamation points are mine. These stories are scandalous. Daniel Dombey’s father is a physicist for god’s sake! (Joby Warrick, on the other hand, took the …

Avatar photoIran and Syria Reports

Here are the latest DG Reports on Iran and Syria Post first, read later. Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, GOV/2009/8 Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic, GOV/2009/9 …

Avatar photoDid Congress Define "New" Nukes?

I attended the PONI debate last week between Joe Cirincione and Clark Murdock about whether the United States should modernize the arsenal with the Reliable Replacement Warhead. It was a very interesting and lively debate. I enjoyed myself, and that wasn’t just the Pabst Blue Ribbon I was drinking. Murdock said a few things that …