Noah and I have, over the last couple of years, arranged a semi-annual Defense Tech – Arms Control Wonk extravaganza at a local DC watering hole when we both manage to be in town the same time. It’s on. Thursday, December 7—a day that will soon live in infamy for a whole bunch of other …
Atomic Nuked Veteran
by | 2006-12-03 | 9 Comments
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 …
