This story fell under my radar screen earlier this week, but I noticed it yesterday. Kind of interesting if it were true, but it’s not clear, and actually sounds like just gossip to me. Last Saturday, the Tokyo Shimbun (in Japanese only I think) reported that North Korea had offered Russia exclusive rights to its …
Live Blogging Me!
by | 2006-12-07 | 3 Comments
Peter Zimmerman and I are giving a talk about our article, “Bomb in the Backyard” at a meeting with defense journalists. My handout—using some of the cool images by Jeffrey Smith—is here. We are also getting a couple of questions about polonium. The best resource I know is this fact sheet from the Health Physics …
No Ipods for Kim Jong Il
by | 2006-12-07 | 5 Comments
There are some new US sanctions on North Korea which are intended to target the fabulous life of Dear Leader and his posse. Sales of Ipods, Segways and other fun things are now banned. It is Washington’s first-ever attempt to use trade penalties as a way of personally aggravating a foreign leader. They target items …
Bowling for Bioweapons
by | 2006-12-07 | 2 Comments
This is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. Five years after the United States brought an early end to a review of an international treaty banning biological weapons, conference delegates have resurrected a casualty of that diplomatic breakdown (see GSN, Nov. 20). It is not, however, a resumption of discussion of treaty verification …
