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One of the research assistants over at CATO is suggesting that a nuclear armed Iran might be a good thing for US foreign policy. I don’t know anyone who thinks “lots of people are considering [this], but are unable to…
In an earlier post, I noted that the Iranian parliament passed a bill requiring the government to continue the peaceful nuclear program, but that “the bill does not direct the government to resume uranium enrichment or end U.N. inspections.” Reuters…
Reuters has a story on the CounterCom system—about two weeks after Space News. The story has some good reporting, based on e-mails with AFSPC personnel. It commits one significant factual error: The device appears to have been put into service…
Reuters is reporting talks between Iran and Europe will resume on November 5, with hints that Iran will agree to an interim suspension of uranium enrichment by November 10 in order to avoid referral to the Security Council. Tehran is stalling to see if the upcoming presidential election produces a coherent US policy.
For some reason, MDA has made the 2000 edition of Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat insanely difficult to find. Here it is.
Dick Garwin has an article on missile defense in Scientific American. Garwin concludes that “despite the more than $80 billion spent by the U.S. on missile defense since 1985, this system will not provide significant protection for many years, if ever.”
If Bush wins re-election, Washington will “move from urging him to [leave the IAEA] to active opposition” to his reappointment, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.
Another colleague who saw the same unclassified-but-not-publicly-available Livermore briefing on Bushehr “came away with the same sense – the reactor, in large part because of its mixed design heritage is a piece of garbage. It is, of course, true that…
Michael Roston notes that, during his time at RANSAC, he sat in on a briefing from someone from Livermore who made the case that the Bushehr is not suitable for a nuclear weapons program. That technical fact leads to a…
I hear the Secretary of Energy has halted all work at the national laboratories on Iran. Why? There is no public explanation, but speculation centers on the role of DOE analysts in making the Administration look liars on the issue…
