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 …
10,000 comments and counting
by | 2009-01-26 | 10 Comments
A milestone for the Wonk yesterday: 10,000 comments submitted from readers! The 10,000th comment came from Major Lemon who asked whether Semipalatinsk stills glows in the dark. Something oddly appropriate about that… So hats off to Jeffrey who started this blog (and whose it still is, after all) but, most of all to you, our …
