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Yesterday, a colleague of mine was attempting to get a weblink for a recent article in the Washington Times. It’s a newspaper, I’m a “researcher”—so I think simple enough. Except, what do I find? Nothing. Rounding up the usual suspects…
For those worrying about Iran, or realizing that it is in fact only Tuesday, here is something to lift your spirits. There is a wonderful article in the January/February 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs called A Natural History of Peace.…
Iran seems to have pulled the rough diplomatic equivalent of downing eight pints and running around all over the place. This just in: Iran Begins Removal of IAEA Seals at Enrichment-related Locations Vienna, 10 January 2006 – IAEA inspectors confirmed…
Imagine that you are an astronaut. Sitting (or is it floating?) in the International Space Station (ISS), you would likely be quite aware of a curious link between your escape route home (Earth sweet Earth) and Russia’s possible assistance for…
That’s what Jacqueline Shire is reporting over at ABCNews.com: Sources with knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program tell ABC News that a senior Iranian official notified the IAEA verbally over the weekend of its intention to introduce uranium hexafluoride gas, or…
I am going to be spending the next week in Cambridge MA and Colorado Springs, CO. That is going to make blogging hard, so I’ve asked the lovely and talented Jane Vaynman, of the Carnegie Endowment, to blog in my…
Sandia officials tell John Fleck that the R NEP sled test will not be conducted at Sandia: That has prompted speculation that the Sandia test would go forward. Jeffrey Lewis … discussed the issue most recently last week. If the…
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…
Go ahead and press play (Or view it here if you have browser trouble). The clip is real—it is taken from a real 2003 BBC Documentary called The Real Dr. Evil (You can download the entire documentary). Chosun Ilbo even…
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…
