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2006

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Air Force Leaders Discuss Air Force Issues

Yup. Real headline: PRESS RELEASE—Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs Release No. 010206 February 1,2006 Air Force leaders to discuss Air Force issues ORLANDO, Fla. – At 11:00 a.m. EST, Thursday, February 2, Secretary of the Air…

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Heinonen Safeguards Update

Here is the full text of Olli Heinonen’s update brief on Developments in the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Agency Verification of Iran’s Suspension of Enrichment-related and Reprocessing Activities. The document also…

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IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran

Arms Control Wonk.com has a copy of the latest report by Olli Heinonen, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, on Iran’s implementation of its safeguards agreement. I will post the full text a little later.…

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Feed Has Been Repaired

Okay, dear readers, I think we have managed to repair the feed. Let me know if it is working again. And “Hans Brix, Oh No!” has been moved here.

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STRATCOM Hearts MIRV

Inside Defense has published excerpts from a draft of the Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR announced that DOD will “reduce the number of deployed Minuteman III ballistic missiles from 500 to 450.” This raises an interesting question—what happens to the…

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Hans Brix! Oh No!

Hans Blix rules. Yesterday, during the ACA Annual Meeting, Dr. Hans Blix — Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and fromer head of UNMOVIC — referred to his cameo in Team America: World Police. Actually, he RE-ENACTED THE…

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Safeguarding Breeder Reactors

A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped…

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Strangers With Candy

I’ve put my first post up in the TPM Cafe, asking whether US & EU diplomacy might usefully exploit divisions within Iranian politics to slow Iran’s nuclear programs. (Update: I’ve added a second post asking what happens if Iran “gets”…

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Tunnels at Iran's UCF

Just one addition to Jeffrey’s sweet strike package post. He wrote: Esfahan has another feature, however, that suggests a serious problem. North of the facility, there are a pair of roads that clearly reveal entrances to tunnels within the mountain.…

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Iran & The Bomb 3: Strike options

This is third part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). A diverse crowd, including Pat Buchanan’s American Spectator and…