Urs Tinner, AQ Khan associate and suspected CIA informant, gave an interview to SF1, a Swiss television station. According to AP’s Frank Jordans, Tinner admits to working for the US intelligence community, in particular for tipping them on the BBC…
Urs Tinner, alleged Khan middleman, is free — according to AP: A Swiss man suspected of involvement in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring has been released from prison after more than four years of investigative detention, his family said…
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately. I’ve just been really, really, really busy. Anyway, James and Andy have done a wonderful job in the interim. The Japanese have raided yet another business — Horkos, based un-ironically in Hiroshima Prefecture —…
I still can’t believe the Swiss shredded the evidence. AP’s Hanspeter Haefliger reports that Swiss authorities, under the supervision of the IAEA, shredded many documents relating to the Urs Tinner-AQ Khan case: The documents formed part of a case against…
I dunno, maybe it was the orange hunting vest. Or his comparison of the ex-parrot and the ex-candidate. But I think Dana Milbank, particularly in his columns for Washington Sketch, is the funniest, most insightful chronicler of the tribes of…
David Isenberg has a cool new blog devoted to the nuclear black (and gray) market — and, in particular, you know who … Check it out.
I’ve kept up an e-mail conversation with Mark Hibbs on-and-off for that past couple of years. So, I was really psyched to meet him in person at this year’s Carnegie Conference. Apparently, I am not the only one. With a…
Good morning. This is a Calutron used to enrich uranium in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program. After the 1991 Gulf War, IAEA inspectors found that the Iraqi’s had set up Calutrons, using dual-use products like oil diffusion pumps (right). Many…
Yesterday, I blogged about a Mark Hibbs story in Nuclear Fuel about Pakistan’s P4 centrifuge. The P4, Hibbs wrote, was either called SLM or “was based on another centrifuge having that name …” Hibbs seemed a little confused because a…
Mark Hibbs has published specifications for Pakistan’s P3 and P4 centrifuges based on “Western government data.” I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so here it is (with rough data on the P1 and P2 for comparison): Desig. Derivation Rotor Velocity…
