Avatar photoOstendorff to NNSA

The White House is nominating Bill Ostendorff to be Principal Deputy Administrator at NNSA: The President intends to nominate William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Ostendorff currently serves as Counsel of the House Armed Services Committee. Prior to this, he served as a Research …

Avatar photoChimpanzees Sought Yellowcake in Africa

We really shouldn’t wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, that is all I am saying: Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals—the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans. The …

Avatar photoVerification

Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.

Avatar photoDisablement, A Tiny Clue

Maybe. I hear at least a few ideas have been kicked around for a while.