Speaking of that ranch in Montana … Dick Garwin tells Congress that, in his formidable opinion, the chance of a successful terrorist use of a nuclear weapon in the United States or Europe is twenty percent per year: GARWIN: What we are missing is really the response to a terrorist nuclear explosion in a Western …
How Many Centrifuges?
by | 2007-04-10 | 14 Comments
Paul at Total Wonkerr adds some value to my post, including reminding readers of a late March story from AFP’s Michael Adler stating that a … … diplomat said Iran had installed six cascades of 164 centrifuges each at Natanz and was test-running four of the cascades. That would be 1,640 984 centrifuges. I propose …
Iran Enriching "On Industrial Scale"
by | 2007-04-09 | 18 Comments
Whatever. So, in case you missed it … some members of the news media are freaking out reporting Ahmadinejad’s claim that Iran is enriching uranium “on an industrial scale,” Larijani’s claim that Iran is running UF6 though 3,000 centrifuges,” and the usual pundits warnings that the end of the world is just around the corner …
Anybody Got a Conventional Trident PE?
by | 2007-04-08 | 10 Comments
Ok, I am annoyed. I am writing a paper about the Conventional Trident Modification (CTM) program—an effort to replace the nuclear warheads on two Trident D5 missiles on each of the nation’s 12 SSBNs with a conventional payload. I think this is a mildly pointless idea. I admire General Cartwright’s determination to equip his command …
