Turns out some IAEA officials think the purloined laptop that the US has been shopping as evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is a fake, at least in part because all the files are in English. The laptop’s contents have been extensively detailed in the press (see: Linzer, Sanger, and Shannon) and briefed to …
Ostendorff to NNSA
by | 2007-02-23 | No Comments
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 …
Chimpanzees Sought Yellowcake in Africa
by | 2007-02-23 | 9 Comments
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 …
Verification
by | 2007-02-21 | 1 Comment
Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.
