Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Mohamed “ElBaradei plans to say in his November report to the IAEA that the agency has so far found no evidence of diversion” to a nuclear weapons program, a diplomat has told Reuters. ElBaradei “will balance that by saying that…
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Theodore “Ted” Taylor, nuclear weaponeer and disarmament advocate, died on October 28. Dr. Taylor worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1948 to 1956, designing a series of very large, pure fission bombs intended as a back-up in the…
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Arms Control Today has a special issue on outer space, with an article by Michael Krepon. You may recognize the author the boxes entitled Programs to Watch and False Alarm on Foreign Capabilities. Theresa Hitchens has an article about our…
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A summary of recent developments in Iran-European 3 (Britain, France, Germany) negotiations—covering the EU3 proposal, Iranian counterproposal, developments in Iranian politics and US policy.
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Former Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen has issued a scathing critique of the Bush Administration in the China Daily. Almost amusing was State Department flack Adam Ereli fumbling questions about the article: QUESTION: Adam, a former senior Chinese official, former…
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William Safire is a hack: Bin Laden was the second outsider to try to influence our election in an ‘October surprise.’ I suspect the first was Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief U.N. arms inspector, said to be miffed at the Bush…
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Confusion continues to reign over whether or not a bill recently passed by the Iranian parliament actually requires the resumption of uranium enrichment. The New York Times has a dreadful story, based on an Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) story,…
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One of the research assistants over at CATO is suggesting that a nuclear armed Iran might be a good thing for US foreign policy. I don’t know anyone who thinks “lots of people are considering [this], but are unable to…
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In an earlier post, I noted that the Iranian parliament passed a bill requiring the government to continue the peaceful nuclear program, but that “the bill does not direct the government to resume uranium enrichment or end U.N. inspections.” Reuters…
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Reuters has a story on the CounterCom system—about two weeks after Space News. The story has some good reporting, based on e-mails with AFSPC personnel. It commits one significant factual error: The device appears to have been put into service…
