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 …
Acheson-Lilienthal Already Said It
by | 2009-02-18 | 9 Comments
The most recent edition of Survival has a section on “Reinforcing the NPT”. One of the articles, “The Problem with Nuclear Mind Reading”, is by me (non-printable proof available here), and the other, entitled “Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance”, is by former IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards, Pierre Goldschmidt (available for free here). My article asks …
Fun With FCNL
by | 2009-02-17 | 6 Comments
I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague noticed this little entry in the current calendar: Feb. or March North Korea tests its …
First Debris Cataloged Right on Schedule
by | 2009-02-17 | 6 Comments
click on the image for a larger version This shows the first 14 pieces of debris associated with Cosmos 2251 to be cataloged As I said before, it takes a while for NORAD to accumulate enough observations on separated debris before they can uniquely identify the same object over and over. Today, exactly when I …
