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Haninah Levine has the second of what will be four articles at DefenseTech.org on the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. In these cases, a dilemma arises: should the nuclear production complex go to extreme lengths to recreate the processes needed to…
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As far as I can tell, the New Yorker hasn’t posted Steve Coll’s piece on the Khan network yet, but they have a Q&A transcript on their website that’s worth checking out. This excerpt about the time frame for an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
