Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Earlier this week, 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 going to write a four-part series looking at…
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Bureaucracies frequently matter more than the personalities at the top of an organization, particularly when that organization is the United States Department of State. On February 6, the Wall Street Journal penned a long article that might have been called,…
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Four years ago, U.N. inspectors concluded that Iraq had failed to .. account for large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, weapons capable of killing millions. In last month’s declaration, Iraq again failed to account for those weapons. The Iraqi…
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Dafna Linzer has a detailed account in the Post on the contents of that laptop. I’ll try to write more this afternoon.
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Whether India should place its developmental Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam under IAEA safeguards is shaping up as the most contentious issue regarding the creation of a “separation plan” Inda nuclear facilities. (See: Safeguarding Breeder Reactors, January 24, 2006.) If…
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Elaine Shannon in Time has more detail on Iran’s covert military effort to produce uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) or “Green Salt. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped firm up support for the IAEA vote by having aides brief foreign officials on…
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The Federation of American Scientists has Security Studies Project blog, including contributions by friend of wonk Hans Kristensen. This complements the FAS’ Secrecy News blog by Steve Aftergood.
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Some of us in the arms control community, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, groused about the State Department’s decision to shut down the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board: After the George W. Bush administration came into office, the…
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Yup. Real headline: PRESS RELEASE—Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs Release No. 010206 February 1,2006 Air Force leaders to discuss Air Force issues ORLANDO, Fla. – At 11:00 a.m. EST, Thursday, February 2, Secretary of the Air…
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Here is the full text of Olli Heinonen’s update brief on Developments in the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Agency Verification of Iran’s Suspension of Enrichment-related and Reprocessing Activities. The document also…
