Category Archives: Russia

Caught in Time

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Muller

Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii who lived 1863-1944 had used James Clerk Maxwell’s invention to produce color photographs for his Tsar-endorsed survey of the Russian Empire. Maxwell (d. 1879) had used three subsequent exposures with red, green and blue filters, respectively. … Continue reading →

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Begging to Be Attacked

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Muller

See update below. A computer virus (or worm) hits the front pages: Stuxnet. The piece of “hypersophisticated malware” has apparently targeted the Iranian nuclear program; and might have been successful already. The sharp drop in the number of fed, spinning … Continue reading →

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Medical Isotopes

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Muller

A couple of days before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will again report on Iran’s nuclear program, the French, U.S. American and Russian Ambassadors to the IAEA have informed its new Director General Yukiya Amano in a remarkable letter (since Russia … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Iran

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Muller

Earlier this month Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and his delegation had suggested, in the long-awaited Geneva talks, an unexpected deal with the West regarding shipping much of its so far produced stockpile of low-enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia for … Continue reading →

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