Give the Tiki Doll Back, Please
From Dafna Linzer’s piece in the Post on the rise of “Gen X” NSC staffers … At the NSC, staffers said the gap is most noticeable when their boss, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, recounts his years as an…
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Indian Separation Plan
I forgot to mention that Siddharth Varadarajan has an very detailed article in the Hindu concerning the separation plan and the text of the implementation agreement between the US and India. The bottom line, according to Varadarajan, is that India…
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Boogie Oogie Oogie
Friend of Wonk Haninah Levine takes a turn as special correspondent, attending the Hudson Institute’s Stopping the Iranian Nuclear Program: Is There an Israeli Option? with Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. It…
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Tender Mercies: ISIS on India
ISIS has released a report, India’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How, arguing that the Indian system of using tenders to acquire export controlled technology raises concerns about proliferation. Since at least 1984,…
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Forden and Thomson in JIR
Take a look at the article in Jane’s Intelligence Review (subscription only) by Geoff Forden and John Thomsen expanding on a proposal to develop a multinational consortium to operate a five million SWU-kg a year enrichment facility at Natanz. I…
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Iran and the Shahab 3
A couple of weeks ago, Dafna Linzer had a long, detailed story (and online chat) on intelligence found by German intelligence on a laptop computer stolen by an Iranian citizen in 2004. I am writing a four-part series looking at…
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Subcritical Nuclear Test
The Department of Energy has released a video of a subcritical nuclear test. A subcritical test results in no yield and would be permissable, even under a comprehensive test ban. Subcritical tests are used to determine the physical properties of…
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Koufax Nominations
Dear Readers: Apologies for being so darned busy, what with the move to Cambridge and all. I wanted to let you know that Arms Control Wonk.com has been nominated for a handful of Koufax Awards including Best Blog (non-professional), Most…
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Sixty Freaking Five Percent?
India’s Prime Minister has released a statement on India’s plan to separate civil and military nuclear facilities. The “civilian list” will contain less than 2/3 of India’s nuclear power reactors, by MWe: Therefore our proposed Separation Plan entails identifying in…
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IAEA GOV/2006/15
Here is the latest IAEA Report by the Director General concerning Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran is flat out denying the Green Salt claim: 38. On 5 December 2005, the Secretariat repeated…