Iran Making Progress
ISIS has published the full text of the new DG Report on Implementation of Safeguards in Iran. Eight cascades were operating and being fed on May 13, but don’t seem to be linked into a single unit: Since the Director…
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Iraqi Scientists In Iran?
Rob Stein at Mother Jones has this crazy idea that “missing [Iraqi] nuclear scientists made their way to Tehran, where they would have been welcomed with open arms and fat paychecks.” But as recently as February of this year, Iran…
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Greetings from Airlie Center
I’ve been attending the New America Foundation’s annual Board & Senior Staff retreat. (I forgot my camera. The beautiful image is from this Flickr photo set.) I’ve been to various meetings at Airlie over the years and positively adore the…
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Minimum Means Review in ACT
Brad Roberts has a civil, but largely negative review of my book in the latest edition of Arms Control Today. It points out some things that I could have done better. But one thing really annoys me. Roberts says that…
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Roodie Can Fail, After All
Wasn’t it conservative PJ O’Rourke who said “age and guile beat youth, innocence and bad haircut”? I missed this, but a couple of weeks ago Al Kamen danced on the grave of the nomination of John Rood, aka the poor…
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ElBaradei Quotes On Iran
In two recent posts—Iran’s ‘Big Gains’ at Natanz and More on Iran’s ‘Big [Hairy] Gains’ At Natanz—I have taken issue with a story by David Sanger in the New York Times that “all the centrifuges [at Natanz] appeared to be…
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More on Iran's "Big [Hairy] Gains" At Natanz
More cautious assessments on Iran’s progress, from the Los Angeles Times’ Bob Drogin and the Associated Press’ William Kole. Both carry balanced, sensible comments by David Albright: “Iran’s been making slow but steady progress,” [Albright] told The Associated Press in…
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Iran's "Big Gains" at Natanz
Sometimes, I think the New York Times David Sanger is just Judy Miller without the creepy love notes from Scooter Libby. Then I think, I’ve never read David Sanger’s mail. Sanger cites diplomats and nuclear experts who claim that Sunday’s…
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NAS: Partially Fund Conventional Trident
That National Academies Panel on Prompt Global Strike has released its interim letter on the Conventional Trident Modification (CTM) program. As expected, the interim letter calls for funding only RDT&E efforts in FY ‘08: In FY 08, fund research, development,…
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NORK IRBM, Musudan-1?
Yeah, so I’ve been wondering (more) about the reports that North Korea was developing a new IRBM based on the Soviet SS-N-6. Now Asahi Shimbun reports (full text in comments) that “North Korea unveiled the new missile loaded on a…