Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Another IAEA DG Report on Iran. Cue the panic. Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought! Iran understates uranium stocks to IAEA! Iran holds enough uranium for bomb! Only the exclamation points are mine. These stories are scandalous. Daniel Dombey’s…
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Here are the latest DG Reports on Iran and Syria Post first, read later. Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic…
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I attended the PONI debate last week between Joe Cirincione and Clark Murdock about whether the United States should modernize the arsenal with the Reliable Replacement Warhead. It was a very interesting and lively debate. I enjoyed myself, and that…
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I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague…
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Greetings from Chicago, where I am about to give a talk at the AAAS Annual Meeting on open source intelligence and blogging. This is embarrassing for the Royal and French Navies: Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision…
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Most of you have, by now, read the stories, including good ones by Bill Broad (who had it first) and Joel Achenbach, about the catastrophic (and possibly cascading) collision between an Iridium satellite and a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite. Geoff…
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I keep meaning to write something about US nuclear posture soon, but the day-job is all consuming right now. In the meantime, I want to point out the fascinating debate begun by Geoff Forden on whether the Safir, Iran’s new…
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There has been a lot of technical discussion about the North Korean fuel rods, from their size to how they are stored. Now, the South Korean government has a released pictures of a rod and the rods in storage. Awesome!…
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Iran claims it placed a satellite, Omid, in orbit. I’ve uploaded a video from Fars. Mehr and ISNA have photos of the launch. More to come. Where’s Forden? Update: Thanks to my fantastic readers (including Brian Weeden, see the comments),…
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Lally Weymouth interviews Mohamed ElBaradei in the Post. It’s a total trainwreck. A sampling: Q: Some in the United States claim that between 2003 and 2007, you protected Iran because you did not want to see a U.S. military attack…
