Panel of Exports Report on DPRK
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?!
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Tunnel Re-sealing at Semipalatinsk
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…
“New” Radiation Symbol
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…
An Abundance of Shoulds
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…
The Hunt for Small Potatoes
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.
Worst Chart Ever
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 on the Pak Stockpile
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,…
Additional Protocol and ENR Transfers
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…
More Mongolia Spent Fuel Storage
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…
Pakistan’s Nuclear Requirements
Why is Pakistan building so many nuclear weapons and blocking the start of fissile material cutoff negotiations? There are many reasons. One is that Pakistani military officers who establish nuclear requirements read what Indians have to say. They have read…