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ISIS has released a report, India’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How, arguing that the Indian system of using tenders to acquire export controlled technology raises concerns about proliferation. Since at least 1984,…
Take a look at the article in Jane’s Intelligence Review (subscription only) by Geoff Forden and John Thomsen expanding on a proposal to develop a multinational consortium to operate a five million SWU-kg a year enrichment facility at Natanz. I…
Maybe that’s more impressive if you say it in Austin Powers’ voice. I realize that Capitol Hill’s attitude toward money is a billion here, a billion there – you add it up in order to start getting real money. But…
A couple of weeks ago, Dafna Linzer had a long, detailed story (and online chat) on intelligence found by German intelligence on a laptop computer stolen by an Iranian citizen in 2004. I am writing a four-part series looking at…
I know that a little bureaucrat-speak is endemic to most of the Pentagon (and a good chunk of Washington), but the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) must be one of the most fluent organizations when it comes to talking circles around…
The Department of Energy has released a video of a subcritical nuclear test. A subcritical test results in no yield and would be permissable, even under a comprehensive test ban. Subcritical tests are used to determine the physical properties of…
Dear Readers: Apologies for being so darned busy, what with the move to Cambridge and all. I wanted to let you know that Arms Control Wonk.com has been nominated for a handful of Koufax Awards including Best Blog (non-professional), Most…
…to link to its websites. I thought I’d start off my guest hosting of the Wonk’s blog by a little navel-gazing. Join with me, won’t you? U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)’s public affairs office has been working since last summer to…
