First of all..Yes I am alive and well, sort of. I have been swamped with work and stuff and this has made it hard to keep up let alone blog but I am starting to get on top of it and I am not gonna bother spell check this entry. Boy, has shit flowed under the bridge in the meantime. We have seen stuff on
(1). The Syrian reactor. Arggh!!! Might have got that one wrong but hey you can only go on the info in the public domain. I think ISIS had inside info on this one.
(2). Interesting Trident II D5 RV news. I will blog on this soon…this is pretty hot stuff really.
(3). Fuck I can’t believe this one but yes it might just be official…a negligence doctrine to deter nuclear terrorism might be in the new Presidential Guidance on deterring WMD terrorism!!!!!! in other words it expands on nuclear weapons employment policy. Def more on this coming.
(4). IAEA safeguards C in C notes from B/GOV meeting have been leaked…hmm to ISIS…and pretty interesting read esp 600 metre high altitude fuzing option for the Shahab 3 warhead. More on that too I hope as story continues to develop.
More as well has flowed under the bridge on other topics but just briefly on the Syrian reactor. OK. I have seen all the stuff on this and if this is a Pu production reactor then we are talking about something like a 6 year Pu production campaign for 1 bomb. Let us assume that a strategically significant arsenal for Assad is 3 nukes…Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. That makes 18 years. 24 if one must be tested. Not very efficient.
Has Syria violated safeguards? Yes. That’s bad…but it shows that preventive military strikes actually undermines the safeguards system if this was a part of Syria’s research programme.
See you later, yeah.
