The National Laboratories provide all kinds of support to the nation’s intelligence community. But try getting them to talk about it. When the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck tried to write about the support that Los Alamos and Sandia provide, he discovered that a memorandum went out reminding employees at one lab that they were strictly …
Iran: Department of Chain-Jerking
by | 2006-09-01 | 4 Comments
From the interview Jeffrey quotes in his recent post, are a couple of items worth highlighting. 1. Saidi mentions that Iran might construct HW-moderated power reactors – a claim I don’t recall having seen before. He says: Therefore, unlike in research light water reactors, which need over 20 per cent enriched fuel, we basically do …
Get Enriched or Die Tryin' 2
by | 2006-09-01 | 5 Comments
The phat phont reading “get enriched or die tryin” is 5 Cent by Johan Waldenström . I figured a man as gangsta as Ahmadinejad deserves his own piece. Do we get to call it Pharsi, now? Ahmadinejad is not kidding, is he? The Security Council’s August 31st deadline has passed. The Iranian response to the …
OSD Policy Reorg
by | 2006-08-31 | 5 Comments
Cross posted at DefenseTech.org So, imagine you are the Rumsfeld Defense Department. You are locked in a “global struggle against violent extremists” “stretching from Indonesia through the Middle East,”. You have 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq as the central front in said struggle. The United States is facing major foreign policy crises in Iran and …
