And, oh, by the way, Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.” President Bush, quipping about the trade deal during the March 2006 press conference with Indian PM Singh annoucning additional measures in the “strategic partnership” formed around the civil nuclear partnership. *** Well, that day is here! The …
St. Pete Ponders the CTBT?
by | 2007-05-08 | 6 Comments
I just completed an interview with Bruce Tartar—former Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chair of the AAAS panel of the Reliable Replacement Warhead—for a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. You’ll have to wait for it to come out, but he mentioned something extremely interesting in passing. Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) recently sent a …
UC Wins Livermore Contract
by | 2007-05-08 | 2 Comments
Jack Abramoff is a pimp compared the University of California/Bechtel team that just won another contract to manage a national laboratory. This time its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, birthplace of the Calutron.
Seismology, Schmeizology
by | 2007-05-07 | 4 Comments
Seismologist Paul Richards teaches a course on Weapons of Mass Destruction at Columbia, during which he shows this amazing interview with a 1980s Richard Perle. Perle—then Assistant Secretary of Defense and well on his way toward earning the moniker “Prince of Darkness”—is asserting the existence of “significant evidence that the Soviets have violated the 150 …
