Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Hameed Gul is Nuts. Pervez Hoodby—writing in the Los Angeles Times’ “Current” section —gets alarmist in service of a good argument: In a recent televised debate between myself and Hameed Gul — an influential Islamist leader, retired general and former…
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The Chinese served steak and cheesecake to Assistant Secretary Hill and Deputy Foreign Minister Kim, sayeth Joel Brinkley at the New York Times.
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Maybe it was the duck, but North Korea is willing to attend Six Party Talks in Beijing the week of July 25. A senior administration official traveling with Secretary Rice told Joel Brinkley at the New York Times that North…
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Dominic Gates at the Seattle Times obtained a draft letter from the State Department to Boeing, notifying the company that Foggy Bottom “has prepared civil charges against Boeing alleging 94 violations of the Arms Control Act because the company sold…
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Let’s hope DPRK-Iran nuclear cooperation goes as well as their football matches. “A non-U.S. diplomat” gave Louis Charbonneau at Reuters “an intelligence report” that concludes “nuclear cooperation between [Iran and North Korea] has apparently increased significantly during the past year…
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A few days ago, I argued that analysts could easily confirm with satellite imagery whether or not North Korea had resumed construction of the 50 MWe reactor at Yongbyon and the 200 MWe reactor at Taechon—something the North Koreans told…
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A little tempest has erupted after the IRNA reported that Hasan Rowhani had resigned as Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) on 6 July 2005. In this capacity, Rowhani is Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator. Rowhani’s resignation might signal a…
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Having an avid interest in the history of China’s nuclear weapons program, I’ve always wondered what life was like at China’s “Los Alamos”—the Northwest Nuclear Weapons Research and Design Academy near Haiyan, where China’s first nuclear weapons were designed and…
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Joe Fiorill at Global Security Newswire has a nice summary of recent developments in the US-Russia nuclear liability issue, with a hopeful note of progress: Meanwhile, a key U.S.-Russian agreement on locking down and destroying various materials in Russia is…
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Steel lattice work at the Taechon Reactor in May 1992. Source: International Atomic Energy Agency via Institute for Science and International Security. Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun (subscription only) reports North Korea has resumed construction of the 50 MWe reactor at…
