Jeff gets back tomorrow, so I’m done here. Thanks for paying attention to my random thoughts.
Moving on
by | 2008-08-29 | 3 Comments
Today is my last day at King’s College London. I’ve been at King’s (in one capacity for another) for almost two years and I’ve enjoyed them thoroughly. I’d like to say a big public thank you to everyone I’ve worked with but, in particular, to Pete Zimmerman and Wyn Bowen, who were my bosses at …
Nothing New Beneath The Sun
by | 2008-08-29 | 2 Comments
The text of Pavel Podvig’s new article (“The Window of Vulnerability That Wasn’t: Soviet Military Buildup in the 1970s”) is available at his website. The outlines of the story are familiar enough: Although the Soviet Union denied that the purpose of its modernization program was to acquire a counterforce capability or to achieve military advantage, …
Safeguards at Natanz
by | 2008-08-28 | 10 Comments
Warning: long post. Observing the frequent travels of the IAEA’s Olli Heinonen to Iran of late, Andreas Persbo suggests that the negotiation of new safeguards measures may be underway for the still-incomplete gas-centrifuge enrichment plant at Natanz, currently undergoing low-level operations. This raises a rather interesting question: just how does the IAEA conduct safeguards at …
