Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Reuters is reporting talks between Iran and Europe will resume on November 5, with hints that Iran will agree to an interim suspension of uranium enrichment by November 10 in order to avoid referral to the Security Council. Tehran is stalling to see if the upcoming presidential election produces a coherent US policy.
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For some reason, MDA has made the 2000 edition of Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat insanely difficult to find. Here it is.
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Dick Garwin has an article on missile defense in Scientific American. Garwin concludes that “despite the more than $80 billion spent by the U.S. on missile defense since 1985, this system will not provide significant protection for many years, if ever.”
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If Bush wins re-election, Washington will “move from urging him to [leave the IAEA] to active opposition” to his reappointment, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.
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Another colleague who saw the same unclassified-but-not-publicly-available Livermore briefing on Bushehr “came away with the same sense – the reactor, in large part because of its mixed design heritage is a piece of garbage. It is, of course, true that…
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Michael Roston notes that, during his time at RANSAC, he sat in on a briefing from someone from Livermore who made the case that the Bushehr is not suitable for a nuclear weapons program. That technical fact leads to a…
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I hear the Secretary of Energy has halted all work at the national laboratories on Iran. Why? There is no public explanation, but speculation centers on the role of DOE analysts in making the Administration look liars on the issue…
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From Reuters today … [An opposition group] sparked the investigation of Iran’s nuclear programme when it said in August 2002 that Iran was hiding a massive underground uranium enrichment site at Natanz and a heavy-water production plant at Arak. The…
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Bill Gertz has a story about a National Security Agency employee, Russ Tice, recently terminated after a pair of psychiatric evaluations found him “mentally unbalanced.” Defense officials are telling the Washington Times that Tice is being persecuted for reporting suspicions…
