Avatar photoA. Q. Oakley Bust

Update: Here is the indictment. Gee, first we had the Los Alamos Meth Lab case, then the Sandia Stalker, and now Oak Ridge has A. Q. Oakley. NNSA should have its own episode of Cops. Roy Lynn Oakley, a Bechtel Jacobs contract employee at Oak Ridge, attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier—not …

Avatar photoWhich Is Satire?

A. Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb, or B. Sandia’s Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory receives green building certification.

Avatar photoType 094 or Jin-Class SSBN Spotted

Hans Kristensen is getting a solid, well-deserved round of credit for spotting China’s new ballistic missile subarmine—the Jin class or Type 094 SSBN—sitting along side a dock in Google Earth. (Here is a .kmz file) It looks like a positive id, based not just on the size (130 m in length), but also this picture …

Avatar photoOllie Heineken

Persbo spots a very funny typo.