Greetings from Milan. For reasons that I will decline to speculate on, Steve Hadley decided to take an internal debate within the intelligence community and make it very public: This is especially true because some in the intelligence community have increasing concerns that North Korea has an ongoing covert uranium enrichment program. Notice the passages …
Target: Dimona
by | 2009-01-09 | 29 Comments
click on the image for a larger version A recent London Times article reports that Israel is worried about Hamas using its artillery rockets to shell the Dimona reactor. I thought it would be interesting to calculate the probability of one of those rockets actually hitting the reactor containment vessel, which is 18 m is …
Because it’s free
by | 2009-01-09 | 7 Comments
File size of daily orbital parameters distributed from the NASA space-track website. This is proportional to the number of satellites tracked each day, or at least listed as tracked each day. I’ve been trying to recall all the space-derived information the US government provides to the world for free. The reason I’ve been thinking about …
IAEA Official Disputes The Box
by | 2009-01-08 | 52 Comments
Friend of Wonk, Mark Fitzpatrick, pointed me in the direction of an interview on Egyptian TV with, Yousry Abushady, a section head in the IAEA Department of Safeguards, about the alleged Syrian reactor. Part 2 can be found here. Speaking in his “personal capacity”, Abushady disputes that the BoE was a Magnox reactor. In part …
