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Paul Kerr

Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts

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India and Nuclear Facilities

The section of this document excerpted below contains the details about the facilities that are to be covered under the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement. Asked at a RANSAC hill briefing last week why the list seemed incomplete, consultant to the…

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India Miscellany

Following up on Jeffrey’s earlier post , the text of the US-India Nuclear Atrocity tabled in the Indian Parliament 7 March can be found here. This State Department fact sheet is also worth reading. More items of interest: *Wade Boese…

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India Legislation Text

A copy of the administration’s legislative proposal regarding the US-India nuclear agreement landed on my desk. Basically, the administration wants Congress to change the Atomic Energy Act so the US and India can conclude a nuclear cooperation agreement. Here’s the…

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TPM Cafe Iran Posts

These are the TPMCafe posts from a couple of weeks ago. They can all be found here. The more interesting are listed below (“interesting” being a relative term, of course). Is Iran Pursuing Nuclear Weapons? Iran’s Options Iran and the…

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Tunnels at Iran's UCF

Just one addition to Jeffrey’s sweet strike package post. He wrote: Esfahan has another feature, however, that suggests a serious problem. North of the facility, there are a pair of roads that clearly reveal entrances to tunnels within the mountain.…

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Cheney: No Close Relationship Between Iran and al-Qaeda

Really. From a radio interview today: Do you believe there are ties between the Iranian regime and al Qaeda, Mr. Vice President? THE VICE PRESIDENT: I wouldn’t put it in those terms. I think you’ve got to remember that the…

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Iran and UF6 – It's Official

Iran seems to have pulled the rough diplomatic equivalent of downing eight pints and running around all over the place. This just in: Iran Begins Removal of IAEA Seals at Enrichment-related Locations Vienna, 10 January 2006 – IAEA inspectors confirmed…

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Iran to Resume Uranium Enrichment?

That’s what Jacqueline Shire is reporting over at ABCNews.com: Sources with knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program tell ABC News that a senior Iranian official notified the IAEA verbally over the weekend of its intention to introduce uranium hexafluoride gas, or…

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Carnegie Conference Blogging Errata

The Carnegie people were kind enough to ask Jeffrey and me to blog during their recent Nonproliferation Conference. Jeffrey Comforts Paul So my first ACW post in a while is to inform readers that I F’d up two posts. I’ve…

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UNMOVIC's Future

From what I am being told, the UNSC will not make a decision about UNMOVIC’s future during its upcoming meeting. Whether or not to keep UNMOVIC or a similar organization has been a matter of debate for quite a while…