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CQ’s Tim Stark reports that new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has canceled the Misty “stealth” satellite. Patrick Radden Keefe—who wrote the awesome CHATTER—has the details over at Danger Room. The cancellation of the Misty stealthsat—which, let’s face it,…
The Iranian Students News Agency (via AFP and Reuters) reported that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iran “currently [has] 3,000 operational centrifuges and [has] delivered more than 100 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to warehouses.” Then the Interior Ministry denied…
This is it. My last day in Moscow. Some last notes from the motherland? Well, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the Carnegie Moscow Center yesterday. I spent the morning worrying about how not to get him stuck in the…
Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy…
I am extremely pleased that our little shindig with John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, has resulted in a couple of stories in press, including wire reports by Agence France Presse and UPI. The UPI story, however, has…
The National Security Archive has released a new electronic briefing book on U.S. opposition to the Taiwanese nuclear program in the 1970’s. As is usual of the Archive’s excellent briefing books, compiled from documents acquired under FOIA and annotated with…
The chart is by Andreas Persbo, who has another interesting blog post expressing skepticism about the IAEA’s assessment that Iran may install 3,000 centrifuges by August and 8,000 centrifuges by the end of the year. “Although ElBaradei is a very…
My own thoughts about Iran’s centrifuge program are here. And because I’m not all about nukes, there’s a post about chemical weapons here, complete with a Slayer video.
Yesterday, I hosted John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, here at New America. John was a good sport—what we planned to be a 25 person brown bag lunch turned into a 75 person event that will air on…
Wow. IAEA DG ElBaradei told reporters today that the IAEA assesses that “by end of July, [Iran] might have 18 cascades running.” [2:38, it’s an mp3 file.] That’s 2,952 centrifuges and it would surprise me. No one else seems to…
