Well, folks, the UMD e-mail has been down for a couple of days and, just as it comes back tomorrow, I will be arriving in London to decompress—safely out of contact with e-mail or Bush-supporters (slim chance that I’ll run into Tony Blair). I’ll be posing as a Canadian. I won’t be posting again until …
China's National Defense in 2004
by | 2004-12-28 | 2 Comments
China has released a new white paper, China’s National Defense in 2004. An exercise in … uh … the middle of nowhere. One section in the 2002 White Paper—“National Defense Construction Structure and Organization of the Armed Forces”—has been divided into several new sections: Ch. 4 Defense Expenditure and Defense Assets Ch. 5 The Military …
LLNL to Simulate Nuclear Explosion
by | 2004-12-27 | No Comments
Reuters reports that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will simulate a nuclear explosion to study the effects of aging on nuclear warheads. The simulation will be conducted with the IBM-built BlueGene/L. Details about the test are unclear. I hope I’ll have time to write more about this later, but—in lieu of a more detailed post—pretty much …
Pettiness Toward IAEA Undermines International Security
by | 2004-12-26 | 1 Comment
Does Bush dodge photo ops with ElBaradei? Even more pettiness? Bill Broad and David Sanger have must reading in The New York Times today. They report that the Bush Administration has essentially no relationship with the IAEA, stifling investigation of the A.Q. Khan network. Broad and Sanger open with a fascinating story of a petty …
