Two weeks ago it was Brown (Gordon, the PM), this week it’s Browne (Des, the Secretary of State for Defence). It seems that senior British politicians can’t stop talking about disarmament. (I’ll refrain from making the obvious surname joke; not least because I can’t think of a remotely funny variant). Anyway, as Andreas has already …
A-Bomb in 3-D
by | 2008-02-04 | 18 Comments
Greetings from … Belgium, I think. I am in Europe this week — Den Haag, Bruxelle, Paris and London. Four cities in seven days. I came back from my meetings today to discover, according to A-bomb, that “Iran has joined the world’s top 11 countries possessing space technology to build satellites, and launch rockets into …
Suspect Missile Facility Near Tabriz, Iran
by | 2008-02-01 | 15 Comments
Remember that crazy, though possibly true BM-25 story? One detail in the story, originally published by Bild, was that BND had identified a suspect facility near Tabriz. Reader Allen Thomson noticed that someone recently ordered a Digital Globe Image of Tabriz and found what looks a lot like a missile facility to me at 38.252 …
Get a whiff of this!
by | 2008-01-31 | 6 Comments
Yesterday’s Global Security Newswire has a hilarious story about a Laboratory Preparedness Survey in 2007 (an exercise in which labs are required to identify an unknown pathogen). Obviously, it’s funny for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a taster (or should that be a sniff): Written instructions included with the testing kits directed laboratory personnel to …
