Years · 2008

May 2008

28 posts

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2008 NPT PrepCon Docs

The PrepCon ended on Friday, and the group Reaching Critical Will has posted a bunch of documents from it, including the Chair’s controversial Factual Summary of the conference proceedings and a really bizarre presentation to NGOs by the Iranian representative…

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Syria's Short Stack

ISIS have released an impressive and comprehensive report detailing the deception techniques used by the Syrians for the Box on the Euphrates (Andreas has already beaten me to blog it—you obviously haven’t got enough work to do, mate!). It answers…

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Boom Fizzle Fizzle

Over at Verification, Andreas has put up the first two in a series of posts commemorating the tenth anniversary of India and Pakistan’s test series. Well worth checking out.

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Korea Docs

Whatever one thinks of the editorial page, Nicholas Kralev at the Washington Times has had a pair of good stories on the document dump from North Korea. Nicholas Kralev, “N. Korea to give nuke files to U.S.,” Washington Times, May…

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Would they? Could they?

The “Would they? Could they?” debate in regard to nuclear terrorism is an old one. There has been a lot written about whether terrorists want to use nuclear weapons and, if they do, whether they have the technological capability to…

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How Many Nuclear Weapons Do We Need?

It’s a good question, one that we will try to answer tomorrow afternoon. Special guest star likely to appear. There is a little reception afterward. It will be awesome, I promise. Thousands, Hundreds, or Zero? How Many Nuclear Weapons Do…

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NORKS Will Blow Up Cooling Tower

This is kind of a big deal. Glenn Kessler explains why, perfectly. North Korea has agreed to blow up the cooling tower attached to its Yongbyon nuclear facility within 24 hours of being removed from the U.S. list of state…