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 …
INF Debate Shifts (plus a look back at 1987)
by | 2007-05-07 | 1 Comment
We have discussed quite a few times now the possibility of Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, as well as a related issue of Russia’s response to proposed U.S. missile interceptors in Europe. (Feb 26, 2007, Feb 14, 2007 March 12, 2006 and March 10, 2006 Also, Pavel Podvig has more at …
