Just over a week ago I arrived in Paris for a weekend away, went to my hotel and (while my room was being prepared) went to use the lobby ‘facilities’. On the wall was Le Figaro with the headline ‘Sarkozy to relaunch nuclear disarmament’. You could have knocked me over with a feather. I was …
Areva's Big Ol' Back End
by | 2008-04-01 | 2 Comments
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 …
