Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Good morning. This is a Calutron used to enrich uranium in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program. After the 1991 Gulf War, IAEA inspectors found that the Iraqi’s had set up Calutrons, using dual-use products like oil diffusion pumps (right). Many…
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Wow, so I met Howard Morland today. That was pretty awesome. James Nagelberg wanted me to blog the panel on What the Future Holds for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons. As I have no rational basis on which to make…
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Well, I just settled into the balcony, plunked down 12 bucks for internet access and now George is handing out grades based on the Universal Compliance report: Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible. D Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military…
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CQ’s Tim Stark reports that new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has canceled the Misty “stealth” satellite. Patrick Radden Keefe—who wrote the awesome CHATTER—has the details over at Danger Room. The cancellation of the Misty stealthsat—which, let’s face it,…
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The Iranian Students News Agency (via AFP and Reuters) reported that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iran “currently [has] 3,000 operational centrifuges and [has] delivered more than 100 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to warehouses.” Then the Interior Ministry denied…
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Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy…
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I am extremely pleased that our little shindig with John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, has resulted in a couple of stories in press, including wire reports by Agence France Presse and UPI. The UPI story, however, has…
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The chart is by Andreas Persbo, who has another interesting blog post expressing skepticism about the IAEA’s assessment that Iran may install 3,000 centrifuges by August and 8,000 centrifuges by the end of the year. “Although ElBaradei is a very…
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Yesterday, I hosted John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, here at New America. John was a good sport—what we planned to be a 25 person brown bag lunch turned into a 75 person event that will air on…
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Wow. IAEA DG ElBaradei told reporters today that the IAEA assesses that “by end of July, [Iran] might have 18 cascades running.” [2:38, it’s an mp3 file.] That’s 2,952 centrifuges and it would surprise me. No one else seems to…
