There has been a lot of debate recently about the continually putative Iranian nuclear weapons program. This obviously poses a risk and it seems at least plausible to assume that developing nuclear weapons is an Iranian goal. But we still have to be careful about the claims that are being made to make sure that [...]
Being an Iranian nuclear scientist has become a high-risk occupation. The recent death of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, the 32 year-old deputy director of one of Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, brings the total of assassinations to five among what was a small group of people to begin with. There are two aspects to this act – [...]
Some of you might remember a short-lived television series called Dark Angel, which aired on the Fox network for two seasons (2000-2002). The series’ backstory included the premise that a terrorist group set off a high-altitude nuclear burst that destroyed most of the United States’ electronic and communications infrastructure, plunging the nation into chaos. Recently, [...]
By Dr. Y Every now and again plutonium makes the news. Traces of it were found in Japan after the Fukushima reactor accident in early 2011, traces were found in some uranium enrichment facilities in 1999, plutonium-contaminated lands were engulfed in wildfires near national laboratory facilities several times in the 1990s and 2000s, and a [...]