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 …
Fuel Cycle Docs
by | 2006-11-03 | 1 Comment
Managing the Atom has acquired copies of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) Comparison Report and Piet et al, Fuel Cycle Scenario Definition, Evaluation, and Trade-offs INL/EXT-06-11683 (August 2006). Go hog wild. Or, if you live in Rhode Island, cohog wild. Update: Apparently, quahog is the proper spelling.
NORK Nuke Missile?
by | 2006-11-03 | 5 Comments
So, my initial speculation about the cause of failure for North Korea’s nuclear test—remember that I thought the NORKS tried to reduce the size of the warhead with fancy implosion techniques—seems to have gained some credibility. (See So, Like, Why Didn’t It Work?, October 10, 2006) Andrew Koch called my hypothesis “the most popular working …
