Avatar photoBlog of Note: Nukes and Spooks

McClatchy correspondents Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel, and Nancy Youssef have a cool new blog called Nukes and Spooks.

Avatar photoNORKS Will Blow Up Cooling Tower

This is kind of a big deal. Glenn Kessler explains why, perfectly. North Korea has agreed to blow up the cooling tower attached to its Yongbyon nuclear facility within 24 hours of being removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, diplomats said this week. The destruction of the cooling tower is intended …

Avatar photoWonk School: Overhead Images

Peter Zimmerman, late of King’s College London, sends along a challenge that I am calling “wonk school.” Peter proposes a series of take-home exams to see how well various readers do analyzing overhead images. And, as an inducement, he is offering to buy a pint of (good) beer for the best answer to the exam …

Avatar photoMore on the Ahmadinejad Visit to Natanz

As many of you undoubtedly noticed, Scott Kemp and I contributed captions to the slide show that accompanies Bill Broad’s article in the New York Times, entitled A Tantalizing Look at Iran’s Nuclear Program. It was tremendous fun working with both of Scott and Bill Broad. I am hoping to post a master list of …