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 …
Still Working it Out on the India deal
by | 2007-05-25 | 4 Comments
If you haven’t been paying the closest attention to developments on the India nuclear deal, don’t worry, it’s still almost not quite but closer kind of getting there. Reuters reports on the latest unspecified disputes in negotiations over the 123 Agreement: There has been some backsliding on the landmark US-India nuclear agreement and both sides …
