I’ve kept up an e-mail conversation with Mark Hibbs on-and-off for that past couple of years. So, I was really psyched to meet him in person at this year’s Carnegie Conference. Apparently, I am not the only one. With a huge amount of notoriety from Bill Langewiesche’s Atomic Bazaar, Hibbs finds himself on the dais …
Detecting & Thwarting Proliferation Networks
by | 2007-06-26 | No Comments
Good morning. This is a Calutron used to enrich uranium in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program. After the 1991 Gulf War, IAEA inspectors found that the Iraqi’s had set up Calutrons, using dual-use products like oil diffusion pumps (right). Many companies, including Germany’s Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, had sold such pumps to Iraq, believing they would …
Future of US & Russian Nukes
by | 2007-06-25 | 15 Comments
Wow, so I met Howard Morland today. That was pretty awesome. James Nagelberg wanted me to blog the panel on What the Future Holds for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons. As I have no rational basis on which to make such decisions, I am pleased to do James’ bidding. Sadly, no one mentioned extending START …
Greetings from The Carnegie Conference
by | 2007-06-25 | 5 Comments
Well, I just settled into the balcony, plunked down 12 bucks for internet access and now George is handing out grades based on the Universal Compliance report: Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible. D Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military Currency of Nuclear Weapons. F Obligation Three: Secure all nulcear materials. C- Obligation Four: Stop …
