I did a short post about a good ACT piece by Wade which contains a short discussion of Soviet ASAT testing. In other news, someone at an event the other night said they recognized me from my avatar. Weird.
START Talking
by | 2007-03-07 | 4 Comments
Remember how the intelligence community warned that it won’t be able to verify the Moscow Treaty after the START inspection protocol lapses? The Bush Administration, Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times, wants to keep it that way: The Bush administration has rebuffed Russian overtures to negotiate a legally binding replacement of the 1991 START I …
Vote fast, contest ends tomorrow
by | 2007-03-05 | 5 Comments
We have selected Елена Изотова as the ACW favorite for Miss Atom. She is #6 on the list already so we just need to bump her up a few spots. Elena is a nuclear waste reprocessing engineer at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Click here for the main Miss Atom site. Enter your …
More On Disablement
by | 2007-03-05 | 1 Comment
Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department officials to describe what North Korea was supposed to do to its 25 MWth reactor …
