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Arms Control Wonk.com has a copy of the latest report by Olli Heinonen, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, on Iran’s implementation of its safeguards agreement. I will post the full text a little later.…
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Okay, dear readers, I think we have managed to repair the feed. Let me know if it is working again. And “Hans Brix, Oh No!” has been moved here.
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Inside Defense has published excerpts from a draft of the Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR announced that DOD will “reduce the number of deployed Minuteman III ballistic missiles from 500 to 450.” This raises an interesting question—what happens to the…
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Hans Blix rules. Yesterday, during the ACA Annual Meeting, Dr. Hans Blix — Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and fromer head of UNMOVIC — referred to his cameo in Team America: World Police. Actually, he RE-ENACTED THE…
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A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped…
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I’ve put my first post up in the TPM Cafe, asking whether US & EU diplomacy might usefully exploit divisions within Iranian politics to slow Iran’s nuclear programs. (Update: I’ve added a second post asking what happens if Iran “gets”…
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This is third part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). A diverse crowd, including Pat Buchanan’s American Spectator and…
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This is second part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1). Once upon a time, Persian scientists spent their considerable talents making the…
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Note: My Iran posts, the second of which will appear later today, are being crossposted at Wampum, home of the Koufax Awards. Next week, Paul and I will be blogging at TPM Cafe. Feel free to submit questions. The Chinese…
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This is first part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. When some moron like Charles Krauthammer claims Iran is now just “months” away from a…
