Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Noah Shachtman has a sweet new blog over at Wired called, Danger Room. Haninah Levine, science fellow at the Center for Defense Information, weighs in on Iran’s so-called “space launch.” With a little help from the Union of Concerned Scientists’…
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Turns out some IAEA officials think the purloined laptop that the US has been shopping as evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is a fake, at least in part because all the files are in English. The laptop’s contents…
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The White House is nominating Bill Ostendorff to be Principal Deputy Administrator at NNSA: The President intends to nominate William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Ostendorff currently serves as…
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We really shouldn’t wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, that is all I am saying: Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small…
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Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.
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Ah, the simple joys of cross-cultural communication. I was one of many observers struck by Condoleeza Rice’s awkward use of the term “disablement” to refer to an early phase in a process to “denuclearize” North Korea. Now, China Matters rails…
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Yesterday, I blogged about a Mark Hibbs story in Nuclear Fuel about Pakistan’s P4 centrifuge. The P4, Hibbs wrote, was either called SLM or “was based on another centrifuge having that name …” Hibbs seemed a little confused because a…
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Mark Hibbs has published specifications for Pakistan’s P3 and P4 centrifuges based on “Western government data.” I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so here it is (with rough data on the P1 and P2 for comparison): Desig. Derivation Rotor Velocity…
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Did then-Secretary of State Colin Powell sit on Iran’s 2003 offer as part of a bureaucratic tangle over Korea policy? Steve Clemons raises that disturbing question in his post on the Six Party Deal that Chris Hill has brilliantly brought…
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ISIS has the IAEA Report on Technical Cooperation with Iran (Cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Agency in light of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737(2006), GOV/2007/7.) I blogged about the forthcoming report a week or…
