dr robert oppenheimer’s optimism fell

* goofy, kooky curt weldon is in the pocket of DeLay's russian mafia friends (link)

* with all this news about p1 and p2 centrifuges, i thought i'd add some clarity about the nomenclature:

"A large number of sensitive nuclear components sold to Iran and Libya for building uranium enrichment plants were made at workshops in Europe and Southeast Asia, says a Washington-based nuclear monitoring agency.

In a recent report on the nuclear black market, the Institute for Science and International Security confirms Pakistan's claim that the network might have been headed by a Pakistani, Dr A.Q. Khan, but it was a gang of international proliferators and smugglers that had bases and workshops at many places across the globe.

The ISIS report says that the centrifuges the network sold to Iran and Libya are formally called Pakistan 1 and Pakistan 2 but are better known by their acronyms, P1 and P2." (link)

i don't know where P3 comes from.


* speaking of, here's billy bragg:

"In the soviet union a scientist is blinded
By the resumption of nuclear testing and he is reminded
That dr robert oppenheimer’s optimism fell
At the first hurdle"