The Japanese press is in a fit about a Japanese-made vacuum pump that turned up in North Korea. Apparently, the IAEA found the pump at Yongbyon, leading to police raids on two companies in Japan, according to the Daily Yomiuri, Kyodo News and the Daily Mainichi. The Daily Yomiuri has the most detailed coverage: The …
Greetings from San Jose
by | 2008-06-12 | 8 Comments
This is the pool — which is where I’ve been working all day and yesterday. Also, I ate at a place advertising “The World’s Best Burritos.” I promise something substantive soon.
RoadRunner
by | 2008-06-11 | 21 Comments
The Department of Energy has announced that a new computer to be housed at Los Alamos — named RoadRunner after the state bird of New Mexico — is the first computer in the world to break the petaflop barrier, or perform 10 15 floating operations per second. U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman today announced …
Indian PM on Disarmament
by | 2008-06-10 | 10 Comments
Greetings from Delhi. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opened the conference, Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by lighting a lamp (left) and giving a speech (right). (I tried to convince George Perkovich to have a lamp lighting ceremony at the 2009 Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, but I don’t think he bought it.) Singh’s …
