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Fireball Last Night
I've gotten several reports of a pretty spectacular fireball last night over the Albuquerque area, at around 6:40 p.m. One reader described it as having "a very long yellow tail... Read more »
The Nuclear Future
There's a new Defense Science Board report making the rounds with some thoughtful analysis of U.S. nuclear weapons policy and the resulting infrastructure needs. I'm only beginning to scratch... Read more »
Problems at Pantex
The push to dismantle nukes at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Pantex plant outside Amarillo may have gone a bit overboard, according to a Ralph Vartabedian story in this morning's... Read more »
New LANL Blog
Hard to imagine what we do all day since The LANL Blog shut down . Not to worry, though, Son of The LANL Blog is now up and running !
Continuing Resolution Forever?
According to this Wall Street Journal story , it looks like we're going to be stuck with continuing resolutions for the federal budget for the entirety of Fiscal Year 2007.... Read more »
Hanford National Monument
I've oft observed that New Mexico's military reservations – White Sands, Kirtland Air Force Base, even Los Alamos National Laboratory – serve as an interesting sort of defacto wildlife refuge.... Read more »
Israel has nukes? Who knew….
The latest kerfuffle over Israel's nuclear arsenal reminds me a bit of the classic scene in Casablanca in which one of the casino's employees hands a wad of cash over... Read more »
Nukes to NM
According to our old buddy Ian Hoffman*, the federal nukemeisters have begun shipping Lawrence Livermore National Laborator's stockpile of plutonium to Los Alamos : After insisting that doubling Livermore's... Read more »
An Embarassment of Bloggers II
Journal entertainment geek Dan Mayfield dragged me to the Albuquerque Press Women's blogapalooza today, a bunch of bloggers at the organization's monthly luncheon. Three of the panelists were Duke City... Read more »
Bombplex Hearing Tuesday
My colleague John Arnold ably documented this morning what's at the heart of this week's federal Environmental Impact Statement hearings in New Mexico on the National Nuclear Security Administration's Complex... Read more »
