This is a guest post on behalf of ACW reader and occasional contributor Chris Camp. Everyone knows that there are basically two paths to a bomb, right? You either build a bunch of centrifuges and enrich uranium to 93% or you build a few reactors and extract plutonium from the spent fuel. If you’re old …
Revisiting Enrichment for Bushehr
by | 2014-07-12 | 16 Comments
Underground at Anhalter Bahnhof and waiting for the S2 train a couple of mornings ago, a reporter rang me up to talk about Iran. He had read this piece written a few days before, in which I had run down why the Russians had become increasingly perturbed in recent months about Iran’s claim that it needed to …
Silver Anniversary Celebrations and Fireworks
by | 2014-07-08 | 6 Comments
We at the Stimson Center are celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary this year. A quarter-century ago, the Cold War was receding at a rapid pace and the Soviet Union was in its last stages of decomposition. Washington and Moscow were on course to reduce their nuclear arsenals by previously unthinkable percentages. It was, in other words, …
Double Dragon: Open Source and North Korean Missile Launches
by | 2014-07-08 | No Comments
Why did North Korea just test two Scud missiles? Was North Korea responding to the US-South Korean military exercise? Does the pairing of conventional and unconventional missiles pose a unique challenge for military planners in the future? Today, Jeffrey and Aaron talk North Korea’s missile tests, the Dear Leader’s burlesque style approach to propaganda pictures, …
