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2009

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Safeguards in Iran. And Elsewhere.

Partial schematic of Iran’s planned fuel cycle, once facilities currently under construction have been completed. I was travelling on Friday and got back to the internet to observe the aftermath of the s*!t storm over material accountancy in Iran. The…

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A Correction

Yesterday, my cynicism got the better of me. I expressed doubt that anyone in the press compared the two IAEA reports, concluding that someone in either the IAEA or one of the missions was putting a little pressure on the…

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Wohlstetter Event at Hudson

I failed to mention Bob Zarate is having an event for his Wohlstetter book at the Hudson Institute on Monday: The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) and Hudson Institute invite you to participate in a seminar panel presentation “Albert and…

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212 and Counting

click on the image for a larger version The image on the left shows the positions of the space debris 30 minutes after the collision while the image on the right shows them roughly 10 days later (now, as I…

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Iran Panic Induced By Lousy Reporting

Another IAEA DG Report on Iran. Cue the panic. Iran Has More Enriched Uranium Than Thought! Iran understates uranium stocks to IAEA! Iran holds enough uranium for bomb! Only the exclamation points are mine. These stories are scandalous. Daniel Dombey’s…

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Iran and Syria Reports

Here are the latest DG Reports on Iran and Syria Post first, read later. Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic…

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Did Congress Define "New" Nukes?

I attended the PONI debate last week between Joe Cirincione and Clark Murdock about whether the United States should modernize the arsenal with the Reliable Replacement Warhead. It was a very interesting and lively debate. I enjoyed myself, and that…

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Acheson-Lilienthal Already Said It

The most recent edition of Survival has a section on “Reinforcing the NPT”. One of the articles, “The Problem with Nuclear Mind Reading”, is by me (non-printable proof available here), and the other, entitled “Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance”, is by former…

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Fun With FCNL

I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague…

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First Debris Cataloged Right on Schedule

click on the image for a larger version This shows the first 14 pieces of debris associated with Cosmos 2251 to be cataloged As I said before, it takes a while for NORAD to accumulate enough observations on separated debris…