Classified GAO reports. I knew they existed, but this is one is one that ought to be declassified, at least summary form: Nonproliferation: Better Controls Needed to Plan and Manage Proliferation Security Initiative Activities. GAO-06-937C. September 28, 2006. About the…
WaPo’s Dafna Linzer reports that the Congress has asked for an intelligence assessment on India’s nonproliferation record, particularly its ties to Iran: In a Jan. 23 letter to John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, the ranking chairmen of the…
Alex Glaser and Scott Kemp (above) gave a talk on Gas Centrifuges and the future of nonproliferation at Tsinghua University, with Li Bin as host. The talk was cool, but the diagram of the centrifuge is HOT, supplanting the very…
The bird must be destroyed, feathers and all. They fed us to the dogs. Those were a pair of SMS messages, exchanged by accused middlemen Gerhard Wisser and Johan Meyer, after Libya came out of the cold and admitted to…
(A Swiss-made Bottom Bearing from Iraq similar to the Dutch model discussed below.) Bet you’re all hot and bothered now. Along with “portal perimeter monitoring”, “bottom bearing preform” just sounds naughty. Mark Hibbs is following an obscure Dutch export control…
I’ve written a short analysis, Curious Sanctions, for the Carnegie Endowment’s Proliferation News about the US sanctions imposed on two Indian chemical companies. By its own count, the Bush Administration has imposed sanctions at a significantly greater rate than the…
Ian Cobain has a pair of stories in The Guardian summarizing a “report from a leading EU intelligence service” used “to warn off EU companies from doing business” with front companies for foreign WMD programs: The 55-page intelligence assessment, dated…
… and a pinch of Kosher salt. Arms Control Wonk.com has the full text of the latest “Report by the IAEA Director General on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/87). Press coverage…
A few months ago, David Albright and Corey Hinderstein wrote a very interesting article, “Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks,” in The Washington Quarterly that contained some previously upublished information about that Chinese nuclear weapons design that…
David Albright mentions that “a very important member of the Khan network in South Africa sold to India’s gas centrifuge program” at 11:46 in his interview with Terry Gross on NPR. See my previous post on India’s Nonproliferation Record.
