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When France sold the Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missile to the UAE (under the name Black Shaheen) in the 1990s, the United States strongly objected that the sale violated the voluntary guidelines under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). France sold…
On Memorial Day, I wanted to remember Major Arthur D. Nicholson, a U.S. Military Liaison Mission Tour Officer who was killed on March 24, 1985 by a Soviet soldier.
Reader Dan Joyner — a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and author of the forthcoming Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — sends along a photograph of one of a batch of cupcakes made by his students.…
The Hebrew word for nuclear opacity or ambiguity is amimut, which Avner Cohen believes to be “Israel’s original contribution to the nuclear age.” Avner has written two books on Israel’s bomb. His latest, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the…
ISIS has published the IAEA Director-General’s reports on Iran and Syria. Paragraph 35 of the Iran report reveals that Iran conducted “experiments involving the explosive compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons” — research that has…
I missed that the Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard has a copy of the May 2011 Panel of Experts Report on North Korea. How come I didn’t get the document like last year?!
A few months ago, I blogged about Operation Groundhog — an effort to secure nuclear material left by the Soviet Union at the former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Efforts in Kazakhstan, like the sealing of 178 nuclear test tunnels, were…
Somehow, I missed that a couple of years ago the IAEA and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released a new symbol for ionizing radiation. For a field that spends an inordinate amount of time trying to place the real…
Two of the best surveys of steps required to eliminate nuclear weapons were honchoed by the Carnegie Endowment (Universal Compliance, 2007) and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Hans Blix (Weapons of Terror, 2006). Both compendiums use the…
In April 2009, Bob Gates openly mused about eliminating the Triad. I was a little surprised, to say the least. Now, he’s gone and done it again.
