Phew! From the “good to know” category. The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces assure us that the extra second being added to 2005 (leap second) is no problem: 28/12/2005 13:20 MOSOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – The extra second being added to 2005 to make up for the slowing down of the Earth’s rotation, will not …
RNEP Mopping Up
by | 2005-12-28 | No Comments
The Defense Appropriations Conference report is out. As expected, the Appropriations Conference gave $4.0 M to PE 0604327F Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) Program for a conventional penetrator sled test as a sort of alternative to the terminated Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). The Conference Report did not address the crucial question …
KRL Junk Orders
by | 2005-12-27 | 3 Comments
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the Urenco countries—Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.—confirmed that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had been …
Happy X Mas
by | 2005-12-25 | No Comments
Mark Strauss, editor at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, observed that the Crate and Barrel “Glitter Tree” looks strangely like warheads in a MIRV cofiguration. I agreed. I guess that is a sign to take some time off …
