Years · 2006

July 2006

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UNSC Iran Resolution

Here’s a copy of UNSC resolution 1696. Qatar didn’t vote for it…everyone else did. Here are the three most important paragraphs: “7. Requests by 31 August a report from the Director General of the IAEA primarily on whether Iran has…

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Urs Tinner

The bird must be destroyed, feathers and all. They fed us to the dogs. Those were a pair of SMS messages, exchanged by accused middlemen Gerhard Wisser and Johan Meyer, after Libya came out of the cold and admitted to…

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WaPo on Secret BW Lab

I love this part of today’s BW piece by Joby Warrick: Current and former administration officials say that compliance with the treaty hinges on intent, and that making small amounts of biowarfare pathogens for study is permitted under a broad…

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Note to CFR.org: BBC China =/= PSI Op

Eben Kaplan wrote a piece a few weeks ago about the PSI. Overall, it’s not bad. But it contains an all-too-frequent error. He wrote: Among the PSI’s most notable successes was the 2003 interception of a shipment of nuclear centrifuge…

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Always Trust Everyone

The President of Pakistan has repeatedly said that Pakistan is not making a bomb and has no intention of making a bomb. We have not only made this commitment solemnly, we are prepared also to accept international safeguards on a…

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Nukes: Betcha Can't Make Just One!

Stephen Schwartz is guest-blogging at DefenseTech. I am cross posting his piece on the Reliable Replacement Warhead. Remember those commercials for Lay’s potato chips where the announcer says that Lay’s are so good that you can’t eat just one? Well,…

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Pak Bomb Factory

David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released commercially available satellite images of a new Pakistani plutonium production reactor under construction. (Here is a GoogleEarth placemark.) This is really great work. Precisely the…

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Department of Wankery

The House approved this atrocity yesterday. Great first day back from vacation. But since the deal will strengthen the nonproliferation regime and definitely has nothing to do with campaign contributions, selling weapons to India, or containing China, I’m not worried.…

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Ain't No Party Like A State Department Party

I know, it is the New York Post, so grain of salt and all … A State Department worker cruising down 34th Street with three scantily clad women in what appeared to be a government car with flashing lights collided…

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Securing the Bomb 2006

During Will Tobey’s confirmation hearing, Senator Levin asked the nominee for NNSA Deputy Administrator about Securing the Bomb 2006 SENATOR CARL LEVIN: Thank you. Mr. Tobey, last week the Nuclear Threat Initiative, NTI, issued its most recent Managing the Atom…