Murdoc asks: “How do they verify that an applicant is eligible for this plate? With a Geiger counter?” Apparently not, according to Eric Felten of the Wall Street Journal: And Alabama offers what has to be the single most bizarre plate on the road today, a tag that reads “Atomic Nuked Veteran.” Those who would …
B-Dub REVCON Blogging
by | 2006-11-29 | No Comments
The Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation will be blogging the 2006 Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference. Cool!
3 Studies Show Pu Pits Age Well
by | 2006-11-29 | 8 Comments
NNSA has a very helpful press release explaining those studies showing plutonium ages better than Sophia Loren. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be online … until now: Recent studies by Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories show that the aging of plutonium in U.S. nuclear weapons will not affect reliability over the next several …
Assassination by Polonium
by | 2006-11-28 | 30 Comments
Everyone has probably caught the bits and pieces of headlines on the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned and died last week. There is little conclusive information and the assassination has been linked in the press both to the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the Yukos affair. It’s a James Bond …
