Elaine Sciolino in the New York Times cites “European and American officials” as stating the IAEA has in its possession an Iranian document that describes assistance by a Russian scientist in developing a detonation system for a nuclear weapon design: It was described as a “five-page document in English” dealing with experimentation with a complex …
Greetings from Aldermaston
by | 2008-10-08 | 3 Comments
Or, well, Basingstoke. I am attending the PONI conference at the Atomic Weapons Establishment. I am recovering from jet lag, but should be back to posting soon.
Back on-line
by | 2008-10-07 | 3 Comments
So, it turns out that moving to another country is hard work and doesn’t leave you much time for blogging… Who knew? Anyway, I am now installed at Carnegie and ready to start blogging again—once I have caught up on the news. I have hardly read a news source for a month so it might …
Test Ban Fiasco
by | 2008-10-04 | 2 Comments
A fellow UMD alum reminds me that Mac Destler — a member of my dissertation committee — wrote a wonderful summary of the test ban fiasco in a book chapter entitlted The Reasonable Public and the Polarized Policy Process. I am always amazed how effortlessly Mac writes about arcane subjects that deaden the prose of …
