I’ve seen a couple of news stories about the Appeal to Parliamentarians on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal issud by the usual suspects—prominent Indian nuclear scientists who oppose the US-India nuclear deal. I haven’t seen a copy posted elsewhere yet, so here it is. I’ve already gotten a few e-mails from people pointing out what they …
Blogjammin'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently started his own blog. There’s a link to the English-language site. [RFE/RL via Payvand News]. FYI, Ahmadinejad’s 60 Minutes interview, which aired last night, can be found here. Kim Jong-il has had his own blog for a while and seems to have resumed updating it.
Iran, P5+1 Proposal Documents
ACA has posted some documents describing proposals made by Iran, the E3, and the P5+1. As far as I know, some have never been made public before. [Such as this one, this one, and this one.] I referenced some of them in this June ACT article. The documents contain quite a bit of interesting material. …
James Van Allen, 1914-2006
James A. Van Allen, discoverer of the Earth’s radiation belts, died on Wednesday, aged 91. Others will record Van Allen’s scientific achievements and the loved ones he leaves behind. I remember Van Allen most, however, for how then-President John F. Kennedy invoked Van Allen’s repution to deflect brilliantly a tough question about the possible environmental …
