Another wayward youngster at our national labs. I am going to have to create a separate category for these stories: A woman is accused of using a computer at a national laboratory to hack into a cell phone company’s Web site to get a number for Chester Bennington, lead singer of the rock group Linkin …
Terror Farm, Part 2
by | 2006-11-24 | 20 Comments
This is the second in a many part series based on my article with Peter Zimmerman in Foreign Policy entitled “Bomb in the backyard.” For previous posts click on the phrase terror farm . I wanted to share my favorite moment from writing “Bomb in the Backyard” (aka Terror Farm). Our scenario, like the novel …
Iran Honked Off Over TC Denial
by | 2006-11-23 | 6 Comments
So, like, I have a little rhetorical advice for Ali Asghar Soltanieh (pictured at left). The IAEA has refused your country’s request for technical cooperation—the TC of the title—to improve safety at the IR-40 heavy water reactor under construction near Arak. I understand that you’re angry and, more importantly, that as Iran’s representative to the …
Two horses + commandos = Russian HEU
by | 2006-11-22 | 6 Comments
The Atlantic Monthly has a long article in the December 2006 issue on How to Get a Nuclear Bomb. [Sorry, it’s subscription only past the first page, so I am putting in some good quotes from later in the article.] It seems at first glance very similar to Jeffrey’s Terror Farm article in Foreign Policy …
