Jeffrey will be participating in an event tomorrow at the New America Foundation. He and Gary Samore, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, will be speaking about Iran’s nuclear program. More details here, and the basics below. Countering a Nuclear-Armed Iran Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 …
"Pief" Panofsky, renowned physicist and arms control advocate, dies at 88
by | 2007-09-26 | 6 Comments
Wolfgang Panofsky, director emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, died of a heart attack on Monday evening. He was 88. There is much to be said about Dr. Panofsky’s contributions, from his pioneering research at Los Alamos, Stanford, and Berkeley, as well as his contributions to the policy debate on proliferation and nuclear security. …
Syria's Nuclear Program
by | 2007-09-25 | 6 Comments
I was planing a little summary of Syria’s nuclear program. Mark Hibbs, however, beats me to the punch in Syria, IAEA ignore US media reports that Israel attacked nuclear site (it will be posted eventually, subscription only): Officials at the conference suggested that US media reports asserting that Israel had attacked a phosphate production site …
Fire Resistant Pits
by | 2007-09-24 | 11 Comments
Scott Sagan observes that the W80 warhead — you know the type accidentally transported from Minot to Barksdale — doesn’t have a fire-resistant pit (FRP). Why does that matter? Well, this is an old discussion, but when an aircraft carrying nuclear weapons have crashed, they’ve spread plutonium creating a nasty, if very localized, clean-up issue. …
