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Apologies for the light blogging. Things are settling down here in Cambridge, so I should be back to a regular schedule. Elaine Shannon, writing in Time, answers another question that I had about the data on that purloined Iranian laptop,…
You know what would be awesome? If we could slam a B61 nuclear bomb into the ground. You know, real hard … Yeah, that would be awesome. See page 3 for a description and picture.
FT has excerpts. So does Reuters. According to that news agency, this is the part that the P5 are arguing about: “Requests that the director general of the IAEA reports to the Security Council in [14] days on Iranian compliance…
The world knows what successful cooperative disarmament looks like. When a country decides to disarm, and to provide to the world verifiable evidence that it has disarmed, there are three common elements to its behavior: The decision to disarm is…
The section of this document excerpted below contains the details about the facilities that are to be covered under the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement. Asked at a RANSAC hill briefing last week why the list seemed incomplete, consultant to the…
Following up on Jeffrey’s earlier post , the text of the US-India Nuclear Atrocity tabled in the Indian Parliament 7 March can be found here. This State Department fact sheet is also worth reading. More items of interest: *Wade Boese…
From Dafna Linzer’s piece in the Post on the rise of “Gen X” NSC staffers … At the NSC, staffers said the gap is most noticeable when their boss, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, recounts his years as an…
I forgot to mention that Siddharth Varadarajan has an very detailed article in the Hindu concerning the separation plan and the text of the implementation agreement between the US and India. The bottom line, according to Varadarajan, is that India…
Friend of Wonk Haninah Levine takes a turn as special correspondent, attending the Hudson Institute’s Stopping the Iranian Nuclear Program: Is There an Israeli Option? with Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. It…
A copy of the administration’s legislative proposal regarding the US-India nuclear agreement landed on my desk. Basically, the administration wants Congress to change the Atomic Energy Act so the US and India can conclude a nuclear cooperation agreement. Here’s the…
