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If you are like me, you were no doubt very excited about the first-ever CTBTO on-site inspection exercise at Semipalatinsk. (Rebecca Johnson turned in a some wonderful dispatches for the Bulletin, while Oliver Meier had a nice write-uP for Arms…
Since my post last week delving into the question of how big the HEU particle found on something North Korean would have to have been for the US to date it to 3.5 years old, I’ve had a number of…
Urs Tinner, AQ Khan associate and suspected CIA informant, gave an interview to SF1, a Swiss television station. According to AP’s Frank Jordans, Tinner admits to working for the US intelligence community, in particular for tipping them on the BBC…
Could the current financial crisis have given us a reprieve from a boom in nuclear power spreading around the world? Not if my recent visit to URENCO is any indication! Many have argued that the so-called “nuclear renaissance,” will bring…
I am recovering after bringing home an Italian bug of some sort: Grazie mille, Italia. For some reason, the topic of autonomous proximity operations keeps coming up (See my previous post on the BX-1 panic.) The Air Force is going…
The view, this morning, of the UN plaza in Vienna (where the IAEA and CTBTO are based) passed onto me by a contact. Thank you, contact. Happy change day!
…and the middle one (after surveying all the beautiful Italian people) says “Know any good books about missiles?” And the last one says “Why, yes! I like the books from the ‘50s and ‘60s.” And the first one in says…
The debate continues over Yousry Abushady’s remarkable appearance on Egyptian television. The interview is notable, as one observer notes, because Abushady “is speaking in his personal capacity, which is soon-to-be retired.” You just don’t see IAEA officials doing television interviews…
As Jeffrey discussed on Saturday, “some” in the US intelligence community (aka DIA) have “increasing concerns that North Korea has an ongoing covert uranium enrichment program”. David Albright, in Glenn Kessler’s story, claims this is based on discovering a single…
Spelled out in Anthrax spores Disease is a funny thing. The general tendency of the public is to blame the ill person. Nothing illustrates this better than the way societies treat people who have acquired AIDS/HIV. However, the public health…
