Writing on ACW 2007–2010 · 88 posts · On the podcast: 2 episodes
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The most recent edition of Survival has a section on “Reinforcing the NPT”. One of the articles, “The Problem with Nuclear Mind Reading”, is by me (non-printable proof available here), and the other, entitled “Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance”, is by former…
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It’s February so it’s time for the Wonk’s perennial favourite… Miss Atom: the beauty contest for workers in the Russian nuclear industry. For those of you who are new readers: check out the 2008 and 2007 posts for the backstory.
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The Senate, in its attempt to slim down the stimulus bill, has apparently managed to squeeze in a little bit for nukes. A billion dollars, in fact. In various Senate version of the Bill, including on page 78 of what…
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There is much talk of negotiations with Iran at the moment. But, there are negotiations and there are negotiations… Therese Delpech, Eli Levite and George Perkovich have identified six questions about how talks with Iran should be conducted. If the…
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A milestone for the Wonk yesterday: 10,000 comments submitted from readers! The 10,000th comment came from Major Lemon who asked whether Semipalatinsk stills glows in the dark. Something oddly appropriate about that… So hats off to Jeffrey who started this…
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Since my post last week delving into the question of how big the HEU particle found on something North Korean would have to have been for the US to date it to 3.5 years old, I’ve had a number of…
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The view, this morning, of the UN plaza in Vienna (where the IAEA and CTBTO are based) passed onto me by a contact. Thank you, contact. Happy change day!
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As Jeffrey discussed on Saturday, “some” in the US intelligence community (aka DIA) have “increasing concerns that North Korea has an ongoing covert uranium enrichment program”. David Albright, in Glenn Kessler’s story, claims this is based on discovering a single…
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Friend of Wonk, Mark Fitzpatrick, pointed me in the direction of an interview on Egyptian TV with, Yousry Abushady, a section head in the IAEA Department of Safeguards, about the alleged Syrian reactor. Part 2 can be found here. Speaking…
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New Year’s resolution: Get back to blogging regularly. There were a couple of stories that I blogged about towards the end of last year—potential nuclear sales to Pakistan and Israel—that I had been meaning to follow up on but never…
