Avatar photoBang!

CNN has more video of the Yongbyon Cooling Tower being destroyed — although most of it comes with annoying adverts. I observe that Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs at the Depatment of State, and Kevin Veal, from Los Alamos National Laboratory and leader of DOE Disablement Team A, are wearing suits …

Avatar photoDown She Goes

Cool. I’m off to the US from Sunday to Wednesday for a conference in Maryland (Jeffrey will also be there). It’s at the conference centre where the Wye River Memorandum was negotiated. Also cool.

Avatar photoMedcalf on India & Testing

Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the M-word still features regularly in Indian Government discourse. Just yesterday, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab …

Avatar photoNo Nukes At Lakenheath

Well, maybe they aren’t, after all. As we discussed last week in the comments, there are no U.S. nuclear weapons at Lakenheath Air Base. The non-presence of U.S. nuclear weapons was confirmed by several sources to Hans Kristensen last week, which is pretty much consistent with what I’ve heard. Hans thinks they came out after …