French nuclear power company Areva has a cartoon touting the the reprocessing of plutonium though as far as I can tell they use neither “reprocess” or “plutonium.” They stick to “recycling” and “fuel” to make it sound green and friendly. The have another video set to, no kidding, Funky Town by Lips. (second Areva ad)
DF-31 Launch Site at Nanyang
by | 2008-03-31 | 14 Comments
I often observe that I am a lousy imagery analyst. Sean O’Connor, it seems to me, is a very, very good one. After an earlier post on my blog, he’s gone out and, in a very nice piece of research, identified what appears to be the DF-31 deployment area near Nanyang, China: Nanyang is located …
DEPSECDEF Deeply Confused
by | 2008-03-29 | 8 Comments
I was reading some recent RRW testimony, when I noticed that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England was not aware that nuclear weapons programs were largely funded out of the Department of Energy budget. I often mistake esoteric facts for common knowledge — call it the curse of the wonk. But, shouldn’t the Deputy Secretary …
MNAs in Vienna
by | 2008-03-27 | 4 Comments
I’ve been away for the last week or so—hence the absence of any posting from me. Ironically, a long weekend in Paris precluded me from blogging about Sarkozy’s remarks on disarmament—but more about that (the background specifically) tomorrow or Monday. Following Paris, I spent an interesting day in Vienna at a workshop organized by SIPRI …
