James Sterngold has a long interview with NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks that contains this startling statement about how well plutonium ages: In fact, experts close to Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos have said scientists are finding that plutonium—a key variable in assessing the life span of the warheads—may actually grow more stable and reliable over …
Slebos Bottom Bearing Preforms
by | 2006-01-16 | 6 Comments
(A Swiss-made Bottom Bearing from Iraq similar to the Dutch model discussed below.) Bet you’re all hot and bothered now. Along with “portal perimeter monitoring”, “bottom bearing preform” just sounds naughty. Mark Hibbs is following an obscure Dutch export control case that has been virtually ignored by the US press. Henk Slebos was convicted of …
Democracy and War
by | 2006-01-15 | 2 Comments
He’s baaaaack! Mark Helprin—senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, former advisor to Bob Dole, and owner of a pretentious personal website—attacks the Bush Administration for it’s foreign policy focus on democratization: THE PRESIDENT believes and often states, as if it were a self-evident truth, that “democracies are peaceful countries.” This claim, which has been advanced …
DOE DEL Wraps Up India Workshop
by | 2006-01-14 | 3 Comments
The Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and US Department of Energy (DOE) concluded a four-day workshop on civilian nuclear energy in Mumbai on January 12. The U.S. was represented at the first workshop of the Civil Nuclear Working Group by R. Shane Johnson, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, …
