Tehran University, one of the Iranian universities that has significant research in material sciences including advanced composite materials. My previous two posts ( part 3 and part 4 of this series on a proliferation case study examining Iran’s possible indigenous…
I failed to mention that Steven Aftergood caught ODNI passing off flimsy Russian news accounts as intelligence regarding Russian counterspace capabilities: Some of the DNI’s statements are surprisingly flimsy. For example, he declares (question 17) that “In 2003, the Russian…
Students of nuclear deterrence could learn something from the financial crisis. (So I’ve argued before.) One reason to think so appears in a review of Justin Fox’s new book, The Myth of the Rational Market. In Paul Krugman’s telling, Fox…
Mark Hibbs finds further evidence that the BOB is not a reactor, but a giant industrial facility: Beginning two weeks ago, some private researchers have posted photographs on the Internet that they speculated might show a secret reactor being constructed…
Yesterday, I attended a meeting on the Nuclear Posture Review at the Pentagon. The ground-rules weren’t super clear, so I won’t say anything about the meeting itself. The Pentagon did, however, use the occasion to release two fact sheets: Nuclear…
Yesterday, I started to present a framework to think about how proliferators get the know-how and industrial infrastructure necessary to make weapons of mass destruction. This framework has proved very helpful to me in understanding various WMD programs. It becomes…
Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson was a tenacious, well-informed, defense-minded Democrat who played a central role in arms control debates during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a reliable vote for progressive domestic causes, and a deep skeptic of détente…
Sean O’Connor, whose excellent IMINT and Analysis blog was recently on hiatus, sent along his thoughts on the Box o’ Burma, aka The BOB: Recent revelations in Sydney Morning Herald and Yale Global Online (Part I and Part II) have…
Steve Clemons made a very funny observation the other day after Jon Stewart got John Bolton to say “I only want one government to have nuclear weapons … You’re sitting in it.” What about Israel? Given [Bolton’s] typical lawyerly shrewdness…
click on the image for a larger version After all the information that has come to light about proliferation programs around the world, I think we are in a position to say what are some of the key factors that…
