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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.
A friend sent along an article in Newsweek, Pakistan’s Nuclear Surge, by Andrew Bast that has what I think has to be the worst chart ever. I mean that.
AQ Khan has written an oped in which he defends his efforts to produce nuclear weapons as necessary to “save my country from Indian nuclear blackmail.” I was going to suggest SEAL Team 6 make an encore performance in Pakistan,…
As I noted on Sunday, I was in Brussels to attend a meeting hosted by the Carnegie Endowment on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The meeting was held under the Chatham House Rule. (Interesting side note, the Chatham…
The Manichi Daily has published a series of stories about US efforts to site a spent fuel repository in Mongolia. The short version is that sources — probably in Japan — leaked more details about discussions between the Department…
