Resolution 1172 and the Nobitorium
Details here, but you should all appreciate this paragraph from Hassan Rowhani: As for the question of what we can do now that they all disagree with our having the fuel cycle, I submit to you that we require an…
February 2007
28 posts
When Did Pakistan Stop Theiving?
Yesterday, I blogged about a Mark Hibbs story in Nuclear Fuel about Pakistan’s P4 centrifuge. The P4, Hibbs wrote, was either called SLM or “was based on another centrifuge having that name …” Hibbs seemed a little confused because a…
Putin Appoints New Defense Minister
Putin has appointed Anatoly Serdyukov, formerly head of the Federal Tax Service, as Russia’s new Defense Minister. Sergei Ivanov will now assume the post of first deputy prime minister. The same post is also occupied by another very important figure…
P3 and P4 Centrifuge Data
Mark Hibbs has published specifications for Pakistan’s P3 and P4 centrifuges based on “Western government data.” I haven’t seen this anywhere else, so here it is (with rough data on the P1 and P2 for comparison): Desig. Derivation Rotor Velocity…
Russia Questions INF, Again
Russian officials have again questioned the future of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty or just INF. In March 2005, Jeffrey blogged about a feeler from Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to then-SECDEF Rumsfeld about possible Russian withdrawal from the INF…
Six Party Deal: Implications for Iran?
Did then-Secretary of State Colin Powell sit on Iran’s 2003 offer as part of a bureaucratic tangle over Korea policy? Steve Clemons raises that disturbing question in his post on the Six Party Deal that Chris Hill has brilliantly brought…
Six-Party Joint Statement
You can find it here.
Feith Flap
A couple of posts about his circus tent are here. It’s worth it for the picture.
What's One TC Project Among Friends?
ISIS has the IAEA Report on Technical Cooperation with Iran (Cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Agency in light of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737(2006), GOV/2007/7.) I blogged about the forthcoming report a week or…
Rice: The Dog Ate the Iran Offer
Or something like that…