Geneve
I am off to Geneva for a couple of days, back Sunday. The blogging might be light between now and then. I’ll be talking about non-state actors and the threat to space assets as part of the UNIDIR conference, Building…
March 2006
28 posts
Spying on the Bomb
I bought Jeffrey Richelson’s Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. The book is amazing, particularly the chapter dedicated to the 1979 “flash” over the South Atlantic that may have been a…
More on Iran Timeline
The AP has more about the alleged accelerated pace of Iran’s centrifuge program. Some people at the IAEA are none too amused by recent press reports on the matter: U.N. inspectors should know by next week how far Iran has…
Iran, Iran, Iran
Three items. (1) Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel quote unnamed US officials arguing that Iran could “begin producing highly enriched uranium much sooner than currently forecast” perhaps as early as 2007, and produce enough HEU for a nuclear weapon within…
Surrender!
Chris Nelson has a depressing Nelson Report today. Apparently no one in the Bush Administration believes that Six Party Talks can succeed: Recently, we heard a very highly informed Asia policy player, on background, explain and confirm that the basic…
British Strategy on Iran
The Times prints, in full, the British strategy for securing Russian and Chinese support for tougher measures against Iran. My favorite reference is to assembling a new package on Iran that could have the explicit support of the US. “Nick…
My Summer Vacation Redux
Some of you may remember that, over my summer vacation, I visited the first Chinese nuclear weapons design base, in Qinghai Province. (See What I Did Over Summer Vacation: China’s Los Alamos July 6, 2005). A loyal reader notes that…
Pu Aging
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle revealed new studies that suggest plutonium ages rather well (much like Sophia Loren, I observed). Sterngold is back with a longer article on the subject: Although…
U.S. NSG India Proposal
ACA got a copy of a U.S. proposal that’s to be discussed in an NSG meeting taking place today and tomorrow. The proposal text, along with Daryl Kimball’s commentary, is below. ******* March 21, 2006 Colleagues: In my email post…
Koufax Semi-Finalist: Best Expert Blog
Yeah, I am the expert. That is why I am here to fix the cable. Hey, all, the blog is a semifinalist for a Koufax Award in the category of best expert blog. If you think the blog is deserving,…