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 …
Did Pakistan Test a North Korean Bomb?
by | 2008-06-08 | 11 Comments
Golly, I had no idea that Qatar Airlines has an entire premium Terminal for First and Business class patrons. Wow. The other day a reader, Tom, asked about rumors that one of Pakistan’s nuclear tests in 1998 involved North Korean supplied plutonium: Weren’t there credible allegations that at least one of Pakistan’s May 1998 nuclear …
