Years · 2005

March 2005

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Brooks on RNEP

Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration Linton Brooks testified yesterday on Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). Brooks admitted RNEP will produce a huge amount of fallout: TAUSCHER: “Is there any way an RNEP of any size that we would…

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1987 Meeting Between Iran and AQ Khan Network

IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt’s Statement to the Board of Governors confirms an account, which first appeared in The Washington Post, that the A.Q. Khan network offered Iran assistance with its centrifuge program in 1987. Goldschmidt told the Board…

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The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Design That Ended Up in Libya

David Albright and Corey Hinderstein have an article, Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, in The Washington Quarterly that has previously upublished information about the Chinese nuclear weapons design provided to Libya by the Khan network: The…

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Patriot Performance in Iraq

Inside Defense has the full text of the Defense Science Board’s Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Patriot System Performance (Not yet available from the DSB website). The report focuses on three fratricide incidents—including the death of…