Well, well, well. Look who has a website. Next thing you know, he’ll be blogging.
Taking EURODIF to the Cleaners
by | 2009-01-27 | 5 Comments
What is the difference between natural uranium and dirty laundry? The Laundromat throws the dirty water away while the enricher keeps the depleted uranium. That makes doing the laundry a service while EURODIF keeping the tails makes them a producer of LEU (as opposed to a provider of enrichment services, which I’ve always called them). …
Wohlstetter Book
by | 2009-01-27 | 2 Comments
You know how people dig throwback jerseys? I was surprised when I saw the cover the Bob Zarate’s edited volume on Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Nuclear Heuristics. It’s a throwback cover, directly referencing Roberta Wohlstetter’s classic, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Of course, the cover photo for Pearl Harbor shows the US fleet as a …
Revisiting China’s Early Warhead Designs
by | 2009-01-26 | 14 Comments
I have a new toy: it’s called HyperCFD and it calculates a number of interesting quantities for bodies of rotation that are moving faster than the speed of sound. I bought it because I was interested in the stability of the “reentry body” associated with the DF-2 which Jeffrey used to discuss the design (and …
