Jackie Shire and I are on blogging heads TV. I look like a space alien, but whatever.
So Long, Linton
by | 2007-01-06 | 11 Comments
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has fired NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks. NNSA Deputy Administrator Tom D’Agostino will serve as acting Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator. Linton Brooks is a fine public servant getting a raw deal. Bodman cited security lapses as the reason for firing Brooks: I repeatedly have told DOE and laboratory …
N Minus Six Months
by | 2007-01-06 | 2 Comments
We were discussing the origin of the widespread claim that Japan is “six months” from a bomb—and the earliest scholarly reference I could find was Richard Halloran’s Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited: Is Japanese Militarism Resurgent. Halloran argues: Japan also has the financial and technical resources to make nuclear weapons. A Japanese strategic thinker said years …
Second NORK Nuclear Test?
by | 2007-01-05 | No Comments
ABC’s Jonathan Karl is quoting a “senior defense officials” claiming that North Korea has made preparations for a second nuclear test. North Korea appears to have made preparations for another nuclear test, according to U.S. defense officials. “We think they’ve put everything in place to conduct a test without any notice or warning,” a senior …
