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I was annoyed that most of the major news outlets incorrectly described Iran’s heavy water plant (which cannot make plutonium) as a nuclear “reactor” (which can). I was thinking that an excellent blog post would point out that a heavy…
I was contemplating a post on the House Select Committee on Intelligence’s extremely odd report, Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States, which Dafna Linzer reports was written by Fred Fleitz Yes, that Fred…
Only very rarely do I receive e-mail that makes me say: “Wow, that is an obscure question.” Eric Hundman from CDI e-mailed me to ask whether the term “special fissionable materials”—which appears in the NPT—had a specific definition. I dimly…
For your information/listening pleasure: George Perkovich, Barbara Slavin, and Ray Takeyh shared their expertise on NPR the other day. Also, check out this podcast on Carah Ong’s blog of Trita Parsi and Jim Walsh talking to reporters. Carry on.
The study of the size and function of shipping crates seen on photographs (from various sources). The size and configuration of a shipping crate often will indicate what is inside. Center for the Study of Intelligence, Glossary of Abbreviations John…
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports that North Korea is “unloading of large reels of cable outside P’unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea [that] can be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside observation…
Much of the international press—including the BBC, Reuters and AFP—quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki calling the Security Council call for the suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities “illogical.” Despite the giggling and Spock jokes, the transcript on the Iranian Foreign…
Last week, Steve Clemons posted about an Aspen conference of foreign policy luminaries who discussed solutions to the Iran nuclear issue. I’ll be interested to learn what they came up with. Anyway, Steve wrote that …the single most important consensus…
I’ve seen a couple of news stories about the Appeal to Parliamentarians on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal issud by the usual suspects—prominent Indian nuclear scientists who oppose the US-India nuclear deal. I haven’t seen a copy posted elsewhere yet, so…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently started his own blog. There’s a link to the English-language site. [RFE/RL via Payvand News]. FYI, Ahmadinejad’s 60 Minutes interview, which aired last night, can be found here. Kim Jong-il has had his own…
