Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Raphael is in the news

Congrats to Raphael--friend and occasional commenter of this blog--for giving good interview in an important story in today's Washington Post. Raphael is an expert in nuclear nonproliferation issues (and the modern novel, but that's another story). Here goes: "'The extension of the umbrella agreement is critical,' said Raphael Della Ratta, a weapons specialist at the Russian American Nuclear Security Advisory Council. Without it, 'nuclear weapons delivery systems would not be dismantled, chemical weapons would remain unsecured and undestroyed and biological pathogens would remain unsecured as well.'" I have no idea what that means--umbrellas?--but it is obviously important. Keep up the good work, Raphy!

Also, while we've stayed away from political controversey on this blog of late, I would like to opine that I think it's a disgrace that a story like this--which deals, after all, with keeping nukes out of the hands of nut jobs like Osama bin Ladin--ends up on page A11 while the central story on page 1 is about shopping in PG County. Argh!

Back to our regular programming.

Posted by jwb at 12:56 PM   

2 Comments:

Blogger Bram said:

J. Raphael Della Ratta, Weapons Specialist for RANSAC.

How cool does that sound?
at 5:42 PM     

Blogger jwb said:

Sounds like he should be packin' heat.
at 1:31 PM     

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