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Peter Zimmerman, late of King’s College London, sends along a challenge that I am calling “wonk school.” Peter proposes a series of take-home exams to see how well various readers do analyzing overhead images. And, as an inducement, he is…
As many of you undoubtedly noticed, Scott Kemp and I contributed captions to the slide show that accompanies Bill Broad’s article in the New York Times, entitled A Tantalizing Look at Iran’s Nuclear Program. It was tremendous fun working with…
CIA Director General Michael Hayden stuck to the size estimate of the Al Kibar yesterday, comparing it to Yongbyon: “In the course of a year after they got full up, they would have produced enough plutonium for one or two…
Siegfried Hecker examining machining lathes removed from machine shop at the Yongbyon, North Korea, fuel fabrication facility. This image is one of eighteen photographs by Hecker and SFRC staffer Keith Luse. I was surprised to see the images online, as…
I just love my job. I am like a kid in a candy store with all these photos of Al Kibar. A couple of things don’t add up just yet. Not saying they won’t eventually, but I am trying to…
From a reader. Update: Since the full text is now online at the DNI website, I have moved the full text to the comments.
First off, the Syrian video is now public: Online Videos by Veoh.com Second, I have one more question to add to Jeffrey’s list: “why now?” This has been bugging me for the last 24 hours. Prima facie it makes no…
Robin Wright at the Washington Post and David Sanger at the New York Times are reporting that CIA Director Michael Hayden and other intelligence officials will brief the House and Senate Intelligence, Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees on the…
I just returned from an informative lunch at the Council on Foreign Relations featuring Ambassador Tetsuya Endo, who chaired a recent Japanese government task force on nuclear energy. Fuel assurance was a prominent theme in the not-for-attribution discussion, and I…
Wow, somehow I totally missed that Sig Hecker published the North Korean disablement steps in his last trip report from North Korea : The following constitute the 12 disablement actions as defined by Yongbyon officials: Fuel Fabrication Facility 1) Removal…
