Avatar photoTaepodong Model

Yeah, that’s a Taepodong model. Geoff Forden and I have been making different sorts of models of the TD-1 and TD-2, but that is another story. (Hat tip to reader RH.) Update The Robot Economist is a sick, funny bastard.

Avatar photoCongo nuclear official arrested

Reuters and a number of other sources are reporting the arrest of Fortunat Lumu, Commissioner General for Atomic Energy in Democratic Republic of the Congo, over suspected plans to illegally sell uranium. Basically, this is all the info: a Kinshasa newspaper alleged (no public evidence yet to support the claim, notes BBC) that uranium is …

Avatar photoLevin to Bob n' Condi on NORK HEU

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asks SECSTATE and SECDEF about that incredible, shrinking North Korean HEU program including questions about the basis for assessing that a large-scale centrifuge facility was under construction and whether the intelligence community assess that North Korea has such a facility? As I’ve said the …

Avatar photoStill More On North Korea and Disablement

Two short posts on the subject over at my place.