Bomb Scare, good bedtime reading
A friend recently asked me about putting together a nonproliferation reading list. I was about to start one of those massive, far too much information emails. Then I had a much better idea. I told him to go get Bomb…
March 2007
29 posts
Policy Changes, Podvig on Russia & Bushehr
Pavel Podvig has a good column over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The article, “Behind Russia and Iran’s Nuclear Reactor Dispute” addresses changes in Russia’s position towards Iran, which I blogged about last week, and argues that Russia…
NIE on Iran's WMD Programs
I reviewed Shahram Chubin’s Iran’s Nuclear Intentions for the journal Middle East Policy. In that review, I discussed the provenance of the 2005 NIE on Iran’s WMD programs. Chubin asserts that members of the US intelligence community produced a “tainted”…
Movement at the CD?
José Maria Sert’s 1934 mural depicting the progress of humankind toward peace. Wow, the Conference on Disarmament may be moving toward a program of work. The good folks at Reaching Critical Will report that the CD could take a decision…
More Tarhuna CW Facility
Adding to my post on Tarhuna from yesterday (Tarhuna CW Facility, March 25, 2007), Paul observes that the unclassified Final Report of the The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction makes a…
Tarhuna CW Facility
Do you remember Libya’s alleged second chemical weapons facility near Tarhuna? In February 1996, then-DCI John Deutch accused Libya of “building the world’s largest underground chemical weapons plant” near Tarhuna. A few months later, a State Department spokesperson explained: Libya…
UNSC Resolution 1747
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More on Bob J
I supplemented Jeffrey’s post by flogging a dead horse over at my place.
Space Based Bob Still In Orbit
Al Kamen include a funny little blurb in this week’s “In The Loop”: Are you opposed to nuclear proliferation? Are you a current or maybe former civil servant eligible for the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program? Then hurry up and…
Energy Independence (Again) for Iran
A couple of months ago I posted an an unclassified report, The Economics of Energy Independence for Iran, authored by employees of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. I took it down, so as not to interfere…