A new IISS Strategic Comment—“North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Continuing Reverberations”—confirms statements by US and South Korean officials that the NORKs gave the Chinese all of twenty minutes notice before the nuclear test: Chinese sources confirm that North Korea informed Beijing 20 minutes in advance of the test, enabling China to notify other governments. But this …
Nuclear Power for Everyone!
by | 2006-11-08 | 13 Comments
Should I be uneasy that six countries have recently expressed a newfound interest in nuclear energy? The Middle East Economic Digest, which a number of the other news sources like The Times are referencing, quotes IAEA deputy-director general Tomihiro Taniguchi speaking about the energy interests of several Middle Eastern countries: Some Middle East states, including …
"There is no fighting in the War Room"
by | 2006-11-06 | 4 Comments
Studio 360 is featuring a radio show about the bomb, with guest Richard Rhodes, who is, as always, awesome. The show starts off with a short bio of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is a bit too simple and sentimental, but has a few interesting points about how his life, and the myths that have grown …
North Korean Missile Exports
by | 2006-11-06 | 4 Comments
So, I am thumbing through Richard Grimmett’s CRS report Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1998-2005 to find this phrase: Other non-European suppliers [ahem, North Korea] … delivered [to Near East region during the 2002-2005 period] 40 surface-to-surface missiles, a weapons category not delivered by any of the other major weapons suppliers during this period …
