I started Sunday delivery of the Washington Post today. I was sitting here with my coffee and bagel, Meet the Press babbling on the TV, when I came across an odd little story, buried at the bottom of page A16, by Joby Warrick and Colum Lynch titled, U.N. Says Iran May Not Have Come Clean …
Norway Pledges $5 Million for IAEA Fuel Bank
by | 2008-02-27 | 14 Comments
We had dinner last night at Akershus Castle in Norway. Our host, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, made a big announcement — Norway will provide $5 million for the IAEA Fuel Bank. The pledge is a significant development — In September 2006, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, in an effort funded by Warren Buffet, pledged …
4 Questions from Geoff Forden
by | 2008-02-27 | 69 Comments
Geoff Forden sends along four questions that Congress should ask about the recent anti-satellite mission to destroy USA 193: Spy Satellite Shoot-down: Four Questions for Congressional Oversight Geoffrey Forden Last week’s shoot-down of USA-193 appears to have eliminated whatever small chance existed of that errant satellite harming people on Earth. We will still, however, have …
Interesting Things I Heard Today
by | 2008-02-26 | 10 Comments
I heard two new ideas today that I found interesting, not least because they were, well, new. Anyway, in both cases, the speakers suggested adopting successful ideas from other areas — one on efforts to combat climate the change; the other to keep Antarctica for science. (1) An Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change for nuclear …
