IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky confirms to Doug Frantz of the Los Angeles Times that Pakistan has provided centrifuge components and uranium samples to the IAEA Centrifuge components and uranium samples were flown from Pakistan to Vienna and handed over to the IAEA at its main laboratory, where they will be compared with suspicious traces of …
Rogue State HDBTs Revisted
by | 2005-05-26 | 12 Comments
Staring at the curve representing the effectiveness of contact bursts againt hard and deeply buried targets, I noticed the RNEP was designed to defeat tunnels and underground facilities between 100-400 m. FIGURE 4.5 Effectiveness of contact bursts against some deeply buried targets. Note: CEP=circular error probable (i.e. accuracy). Source: Committee on the Effects of Nuclear …
Showing "Skunk" Baxter Some Love
by | 2005-05-25 | 7 Comments
Doobie Brother’s guitarist and “Missile Defense Analyst” Skunk Baxter—recently appointed to NASA’s Exploration Systems Advisory Committee—gets some love from the Wall Street Journal for his unconventional views on terrorism: “We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized …
CRS on Reliable Replacement Warhead
by | 2005-05-25 | 3 Comments
Jonathan Medalia at the Congressional Research Service has written a very thorough treatment of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RW) program. Medalia quotes Raymond Jeanloz, chair of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, to describe the basic choice involved with RRW: He supports a version of RRW that would build on the …
