Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger profile Linton Brooks in Slate, concluding: The critics were right: Linton Brooks failed to fix the labs, but who can? Like Charlie Brown in his eternal quest to kick the football, we wonder if Brooks ever really had a chance. As for why he was fired—and why now—we suspect that …
Blogging Heads TV
by | 2007-01-06 | No Comments
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 …
