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Wing-nut Ariel Beery, arguing the case for a clandestine Iraqi nuclear weapons program, asks: “Can anyone explain how Uranium can be used for peaceful purposes?” Fortunately, Areva has a very simple explanation of the nuclear fuel cycle, using animation to…
An SS-18 dismantled under START I. Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder reports that the intelligence community cannot verify the terms of the Moscow Treaty. The article is fascinating because of the revelations about how the Bush Administration approached the issue of…
A wild hair up his ass, as well as his nose, that day. No one is exactly sure, but India’s External Affairs Minister seems to have indicated regret over India’s decision to go nuclear. The whole thing started when the…
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Iran nearly scuppered its accord with the EU-3 over its continued production of uranium tetraflouride (UF-4), which may have been considered “feed material” for highly enriched uranium? (No? Read my post dated 10…
I somehow missed the Post’s Al Kamen kicking Rick Lehner and MDA in the jimmy on Monday: Opponents of the Bush administration’s Star Wars missile defense system jumped all over Wednesday’s failed launch, saying the setback showed the administration was…
“Can I get some more of those little boiled peanuts?” Speaking to Tsinghua University on December 17, outgoing Secretary of Energy Spencer Araham said … well, let’s dwell on what he didn’t say. He didn’t say that the US-Chinese Laboratory-to-Laboratory…
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more or less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean different things.” “The question…
From Bouphonia—an anonymous weblog about many random things, few of which are directly related to arms control: Don Rumsfeld is going to be taking some time out from his busy schedule, so that he can start signing death letters personally.…
DOE Director for Policy Planning John Harvey said: “Anything’s possible” when asked about rumors the Administration might attempt to fund a series of controversial nuclear weapons programs out of the Defense budget in order to bypass opposition from the House…
I was catching up on reading State Department transcripts and ran across this response from spokesperson Richard Boucher to a question regarding the stalled six-party talks. Given that North Korea is free to continue working on its nuclear weapons programs,…
