Here and here. Short version: It’s gone. Jeffrey adds: In case you are wondering, what the hell the ISOG is … it is the “Iran Syria Policy Options Group,” which used to be headed by Elizabeth Cheney. The Boston Globe had a pretty decent article on the subject explaining that the ISOG was “modeled after …
Italian Stallions & Plutonium
by | 2007-05-31 | 6 Comments
Oh, you just can’t wait to figure out what the hell that means, can you? I noticed a fun fact about plutonium pits while reading the AAAS report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead: During the Cold War workers at Rocky Flats worked plutonium (“wrought processing”) to make a spherical pit; today, TA-55 casts them in …
Raiders of the Lost HEU
by | 2007-05-29 | No Comments
That was just cooler than the original title of the post, “Nuclear Archeology and Highly Enriched Uranium”—a subject that Frank Von Hippel mentioned during a really interesting meeting organized by Stephen Schwartz and the The Nonproliferation Review. Frank discussed his article with FAS’ Steven Aftergood entitled the “US HEU declaration, The U.S. Highly Enriched Uranium …
DF-31: Initial Threat Availability
by | 2007-05-27 | 9 Comments
The 2007 Chinese Military Power is out. The most interesting development is that OSD describes the status of the DF-31 as “initial threat availability.” That’s not quite deployment, but the biggest news for DF-31 watchers since the first (apparently unsuccessful) flight tests in 1999 and 2000. It means the missile has been successfully tested at …
