Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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I bought Jeffrey Richelson’s Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. The book is amazing, particularly the chapter dedicated to the 1979 “flash” over the South Atlantic that may have been a…
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Three items. (1) Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel quote unnamed US officials arguing that Iran could “begin producing highly enriched uranium much sooner than currently forecast” perhaps as early as 2007, and produce enough HEU for a nuclear weapon within…
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Chris Nelson has a depressing Nelson Report today. Apparently no one in the Bush Administration believes that Six Party Talks can succeed: Recently, we heard a very highly informed Asia policy player, on background, explain and confirm that the basic…
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The Times prints, in full, the British strategy for securing Russian and Chinese support for tougher measures against Iran. My favorite reference is to assembling a new package on Iran that could have the explicit support of the US. “Nick…
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Some of you may remember that, over my summer vacation, I visited the first Chinese nuclear weapons design base, in Qinghai Province. (See What I Did Over Summer Vacation: China’s Los Alamos July 6, 2005). A loyal reader notes that…
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A few weeks ago, I mentioned that James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle revealed new studies that suggest plutonium ages rather well (much like Sophia Loren, I observed). Sterngold is back with a longer article on the subject: Although…
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Yeah, I am the expert. That is why I am here to fix the cable. Hey, all, the blog is a semifinalist for a Koufax Award in the category of best expert blog. If you think the blog is deserving,…
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Apologies for the light blogging. Things are settling down here in Cambridge, so I should be back to a regular schedule. Elaine Shannon, writing in Time, answers another question that I had about the data on that purloined Iranian laptop,…
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You know what would be awesome? If we could slam a B61 nuclear bomb into the ground. You know, real hard … Yeah, that would be awesome. See page 3 for a description and picture.
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The world knows what successful cooperative disarmament looks like. When a country decides to disarm, and to provide to the world verifiable evidence that it has disarmed, there are three common elements to its behavior: The decision to disarm is…
