High Surety Warhead, 2
Looks like Ian Bruce of the Glasgow Herald secured a statement from MOD on the High Surety Warhead: An MoD spokesman said: “No decisions on any replacement for Trident have yet been taken and there is no programme to build…
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More on that Bogus BM-25 Pic
Last week, I wrote that Space Daily tried to pass off a picture of a Russian missile as the “BM-25” which may or may not be North Korea’s newest IRBM. Anatoly Zak writes in to confirm that he took the…
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Secret Screws
Oh, you thought this was a Larry Craig post. You are going to be very disappointed. Or maybe not. This is yet another post about our favorite form of smut here at Arms Control Wonk — wonkporn. See that picture…
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Revised Calculation on Iranian Hex
So. We know that Iran operated 8 cascades between 18 April- 19 August. That is seventeen weeks, 119 days or 2856 hours. Eight cascades, fed 70 grams of hex per hour, should have consumed 1,600 kg of hex. Assume the…
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IAEA GOV/2007/48
GOV/2007/28, like clockwork, is out on the ISIS website. Items of note: Hey, remember that David Sanger story about how, during the May 13 short notice inspection, “all the centrifuges appeared to be enriching uranium and running smoothly”? Yeah, well,…
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IAEA-Iran Modalities Plan Online
The IAEA has posted the Modalities Plan, formally Understandings of The Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA on the Modalities of Resolution of the Outstanding Issues. (Apparently Iran and IAEA ignored my plea to name it the “Action Plan”…
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Bogus BM-25 Pic
The website Spacewar placed this photo (at right) alongside an AFP article about the inclusion of North Korean missile programs in the 6 Party process (“US to look into North Korea’s missile threat,” August 24, 2007). Although the AFP article…
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High Surety Warhead
When the-Prime Minister Tony Blair sought support to replace Britain’s Trident system, he deferred the decision on a replacement warhead to the next Parliament. I’ve wondered if that meant Britain might build an RRW: … Britain’s nuclear warhead design is…
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IAEA Action Plan
Apparently, we have an IAEA-Iran action plan. Iran, IAEA see progress on nuclear talks Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency both said on Tuesday they had made progress in talks about Tehran’s offer of more transparency aimed at defusing…
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Geeks and Wonks, Working Together
I am reminded of that Old Onion headline: Gaywads, Dorkwads Sign Historic Wad Accord. Anyway. About a week ago Greg broadcast a request for some website help. Six brave volunteers have managed to crank out a years worth of updates…