Hello, my name is Volodya. I am looking for work. A Grandy Jury indicted [the labor recruiting companies hired by] Keppel AmFELS for hiring 41 illegal aliens to work on the SBX platform: The three-year investigation leading to this indictment was initiated in September 2004 with a comprehensive sweep of the day shift employees working …
Hot ISOG Action
by | 2007-06-01 | No Comments
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 …
