Glenn “Too Tall” Reynolds of Instapundit wrote in TCS today about prospects for Pebble-bed High Temperature Gas Reactors (HTGRs). I’m glad to see advanced nuclear reactors being discussed more and more these days. I researched reactors like the HTGR back in the late 1970’s, though I favored the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) for [...]
Via Glenn “Too Tall” Reynolds, an observation about CIA leaks from Michael Rubin. Key quote:
If John Negroponte and Pat Kennedy wanted to put an end to it, they could launch an investigation or shut-it-down. There are only two conclusions that can be drawn by the fact that they do not: 1) Either, they support [...]
In the 31 August 9th District Congressional debate involving Democrat Baron Hill, Republican Mike Sodrel, and Libertarian Eric Schansberg, Hill explained that he mistakenly supported the authorization of military force against Irag because he was “lied to.” He never said who lied to him but the clear implication was that it was George W. [...]
This is the first of what may or may not be series in which I, as a former Libertarian Party member, celebrate the liberating experience of joining the GOP and embracing my inner Republican. To illustrate what I mean, I offer the following email I circulated to friends earlier today:
The folks at PowerLine say [...]
Via RealClearPolitics is an article in the current online Foreign Affairs by Professor Scott Sagan titled How to keep the bomb from Iran. The title promises a hard hitting, no nonsense analysis of military and foreign policy alternatives for dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The first paragraph articulates the problem very well.
[T]he reasoning [...]
On NPR yesterday, John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence repeated the “official” intelligence estimate that Iran was 5 to 10 years from developing a nuclear weapon. He was asked to explain the discrepancy between the U.S. and Israeli estimates, which he admitted derived from the same data, and he responded that the Israelis [...]