Avatar photoBeaten With A POGO Stick

I was reading Bill Gertz’s article on the EMP threat, thinking “I wish someone else would point out that the article is a steaming pile of horseapples.” Nick Schwellenbach from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has done just that, drawing on his excellent article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists entitled EMPty Threat and …

Avatar photoNot Your Daddy's Triad

Frank Munger in the Knoxville (TN) News-Sentinel (via John Fleck) reports on some interesting issues arising from stockpile life extension programs for the B61 and W87 warheads: Former [Oak Ridge Y-12 plant] general manager Dennis Ruddy, in an interview earlier this fall, said it actually takes longer to refurbish old warheads than it did to …

Avatar photoGreat Balls of … Uranium

… and a pinch of Kosher salt. Arms Control Wonk.com has the full text of the latest “Report by the IAEA Director General on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/87). Press coverage focuses on the revelation that the AQ Khan network provided Iran with a number of …

Avatar photoISIS Against The Gray Lady

The New York Times refuses to correct an egregious error by David Sanger and Bill Broad. Arms Control Wonk has the correspondence. David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and Interational Security (ISIS) (right), recently criticized a New York Times story by Bill Broad and David Sanger, on the grounds that it contains a …