I am back from London—where the steadily escalating death toll from the Asian tsunami added a somber note to the festivities. Regular postings will resume tomorrow morning. There will be no end to the ration of crap I am going to give Paul for not managing a single posting in my absence. In all fairness, …
Vacation
by | 2004-12-28 | 2 Comments
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 …
