Avatar photoDisablement, A Tiny Clue

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

Avatar photoDisablement, Whatever That Means

Ah, the simple joys of cross-cultural communication. I was one of many observers struck by Condoleeza Rice’s awkward use of the term “disablement” to refer to an early phase in a process to “denuclearize” North Korea. Now, China Matters rails against difficult to translate words like “disablement” in place of straightforward terms such as cease, …

Avatar photoResolution 1172 and the Nobitorium

Details here, but you should all appreciate this paragraph from Hassan Rowhani: As for the question of what we can do now that they all disagree with our having the fuel cycle, I submit to you that we require an opportunity, time to be able to act on our capability in this area. That is, …

Avatar photoWhen Did Pakistan Stop Theiving?

Yesterday, I blogged about a Mark Hibbs story in Nuclear Fuel about Pakistan’s P4 centrifuge. The P4, Hibbs wrote, was either called SLM or “was based on another centrifuge having that name …” Hibbs seemed a little confused because a URENCO official told him that URENCO’s files didn’t show any centrifuge named “SLM.” Well, that …