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In 1998, China backed out of a contract to build a Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) for Iran—a victory for US nonproliferation policy during the Clinton Administration. Iran built the facility using the designs China had already provided. Apparently, there were…
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67) has several paragraphs devoted to Iran’s the Gchine uranium mine and mill, near Bandar Abbas. ElBaradei provided some background on the Gchine mine in 2004: In the…
IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has submitted a report concerning the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67). The full text—marked “restricted distribution”—fell off a truck, digitally speaking. George Jahn with AP led with the…
AP Special Correspondent Charles J. Hanley has a readable, accessible summary of the Iraq WMD debacle in the Guardian. Hanley opens with an anecdote that I haven’t seen before: Beneath the giant dome of a Baghdad palace, facing his team…
Beijing has released a new white paper, China’s Endeavors for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. The white paper looks to be somewhat longer than its predecessor (released in 2003), with an expanded section covering the implementation and publication of export…
The State Department’s Bureau of Verification and Compliance has issued its “annual” report concerning Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements. (And by “annual”, BVC means just twice in five years. The previous report, released in…
Kenneth Pollack told the Jewish Telegraph Agency (via Josh Marshal) that he is one of two US government officials (USGO-1) mentioned in the indictment against former Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. The relevant paragraph reads: On or about…
The editors of Foreign Policy magazine “look back at at some of the persons, places and things that mattered most … and a few that never lived up to their billing.” The Number One Disappointment of the last 35 years?…
I was really puzzled by this remark in Dafna Linzer’s WaPo story linking enriched uranium on Iranian centrifuges to contaminated Pakistani equipment, not a clandestine nuclear weapons program: “The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with…
Kyodo interviewed Pakistani CEO Perverz Musharraf, who confirmed that AQ Khan supplied North Korea with centrifuges and components. Musharraf also allowed the Khan may have provided uranium hexafluoride: Asked to comment on reports that Pakistan has told Japanese government officials…
