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There is a lot of hullaballo about North Korea reversing the disablement procedures at Yongbyon. I take the measures seriously as a signal by Pyongyang, but it is important to keep in mind that the substance of the reversal is…
The Arms Control Association has the revised text for India’s draft NSG exemption. I thought it might be fun to compare, word for word, the old text with the new. It wasn’t (I got rather obsessive about it). However, I…
Howard Berman has released the long-awaited State Department responses to more than 40 questions the House Foreign Affairs Committee asked about the US-India Nuclear Debacle in October 2007. You can find them on the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center website. Glenn…
Conversations about a recent news report in the Dutch paper De Telegraaf — that Netherlands has recalled a spy/saboteur from Iran’s nuclear program in fear of an impending attack — are filling my inbox. Here is the crucial bit of…
Jeff gets back tomorrow, so I’m done here. Thanks for paying attention to my random thoughts.
Today is my last day at King’s College London. I’ve been at King’s (in one capacity for another) for almost two years and I’ve enjoyed them thoroughly. I’d like to say a big public thank you to everyone I’ve worked…
The text of Pavel Podvig’s new article (“The Window of Vulnerability That Wasn’t: Soviet Military Buildup in the 1970s”) is available at his website. The outlines of the story are familiar enough: Although the Soviet Union denied that the purpose…
Warning: long post. Observing the frequent travels of the IAEA’s Olli Heinonen to Iran of late, Andreas Persbo suggests that the negotiation of new safeguards measures may be underway for the still-incomplete gas-centrifuge enrichment plant at Natanz, currently undergoing low-level…
Here’s an interesting factoid. The UK and US each possess about 100 MT of separated plutonium. However, the UK stockpile is largely civilian, whereas the US stockpile is almost entirely military. The UK is currently engaged in a debate about…
Comeback time already? I’m pretty sure this was made of concrete. Following are some excerpts from a translation of the August 26, 2008 statement of the North Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesman. The full text appears in the comments. The official…
