Avatar photoIran in the Nuclear Suppliers Group?

ISIS posted a copy of that letter Iran sent to UN SecGen Ban Ki Moon last week. The letter, entitled The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Proposed Package for Constructive Negotiations, does not mention a suspension of uranium enrichment, a key demand of the P5+1, but it suggests the possibility of intrusive inspections and multinational enrichment …

Avatar photoJanne Nolan, Tuesday @ NAF, 12:15

Janne Nolan is coming by tomorrow (Tuesday) to talk about the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review and whether it will matter. Posturing About the Future of Nuclear Weapons Predictions for the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review The next President will conduct yet another Nuclear Posture Review — the third since the end of the Cold War. What’s …

Avatar photoEarthquake Update

Mark Hibbs, writing in Nucleonics Week (subscription required), points out that that damage to China’s nuclear weapons facilities was slight: According to local sources, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, CAEP, located in Mianyang, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, was not significantly damaged but six personnel were injured. CAEP is responsible for nuclear …

Avatar photoI'm clean

One picks up a variety of strange souvenirs and ephemera in this business. My end of year dosimetry report from Los Alamos strikes me as one. We had to wear dosimeters when we went to see the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility at Los Alamos last summer.