Life After RRW
Elaine Grossman recently wrote pair of excellent stories on how NNSA is modifying the existing LEP programs for the B61 and the W76 in order to achieve some of the benefits of the RRW program: — U.S. Air Force Might…
2008
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Provisionally Delisting North Korea Redux
Glenn Kessler has a pair of great stories on the breakdown of the October 3 Six Party Agreement. On Friday, Kessler detailed how the State Department managed to impose humiliating verification demands that North Korea was sure to reject (“Far-Reaching…
North Korea Tosses IAEA Inspectors
“North Korea has cut the seals and shuttered the cameras. Next up, North Korea tosses the inspectors,” I wrote yesterday in my blog post, Provisionally Delisting North Korea. This morning, North Korea tossed the inspectors. Elaine Scolino reports this morning…
Provisionally Delisting North Korea
You may have noticed that IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei announced that North Korea has asked the IAEA to remove the seals and surveillance equipment on the reprocessing facility: This morning, the DPRK authorities asked the Agency´s inspectors to remove seals…
START: Dead Treaty Walking
Josh Meyer in the Los Angeles Times has an excellent article about the potential casualties of the Russia-Georgia conflict — including the START Treaty. Some high-level meetings have been postponed indefinitely, including a trip to Russia by John Rood, the…
Greetings from Jacksonville
Well actually Yulee, Florida — home of the White Oak Conservation Center. Sorry about the light posting of late. James is relocating to the US and I am here in Florida wrapping up a couple of days at a conference…
Hayden on Al Kibar
CIA Director Michael Hayden recently provided an extended discussion of the timeline leading up to the identification and destruction of the probable Syrian reactor at Al Kibar: Thanks to some outstanding intelligence work, we were able last year to spoil…
NORK Missile Facility Spotted in 06/07
Looks like eagle-eyed observers in the GoogleEarth community spotted the North Korean Space Launch Facility as early as December 2006 and January 2007 Very, very cool.
More on New NORK Missile Facility
Yonhap has two excellent articles on the new missile and space launch facility near Tongchang-ri that was first publicly identified by Joseph Brmudez and Tim Brown: Kim Kwi-ku’n: “What Is the Missile Base in North Korea’s Tongch’ang-ri for? — ‘Likelihood…
DG Report On Iran (GOV/2008/38)
Speaking of Vienna, the IAEA DG report on Iran is on the ISIS website (Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran,…