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What people don’t realize is the information from the labs is really meaningless to us. I mean, for one, half the people that do meth don’t even know how to spell the word plutonium. Justin Stone on the possibility that three flash drives from Los Alamos National Laboratory, found at the suspected methamphetamine lab where …

Avatar photoEnd of the World: Still Hot

Apparently, Kim Jong Il and Marvin Gaye have a little something in common: Motel Bookings, Condom Sales Surge Post Nuke Test Chosun Ilbo, October 26, 2006 As tends to be the case in disasters and crises, sales of condoms and reservations at motels surged in the wake of North Korea’s nuclear test on Oct. 9. …

Avatar photoNCRI Did Not Discover Natanz

The debate about whether Iran has constructed a clandestine centrifuge program drives me nuts. You mean other than the one we already found? And by we, I mean the United States—or at least its intelligence community. As I understand the sequence of events, the United States—knowing full well that Iran had a clandestine centrifuge program—watched …

Avatar photoFleck: Don't Go Apedung

The amazing John Fleck issues a plea “for a little calm while we wait to see what was actually on the mobile home meth lab jump drives ”: When the national news media went all apedung over Wen Ho Lee back in March 1999, it seemed reasonable. After all, no less than the New York …