Warning: long post. Observing the frequent travels of the IAEA’s Olli Heinonen to Iran of late, Andreas Persbo suggests that the negotiation of new safeguards measures may be underway for the still-incomplete gas-centrifuge enrichment plant at Natanz, currently undergoing low-level…
Here’s an interesting factoid. The UK and US each possess about 100 MT of separated plutonium. However, the UK stockpile is largely civilian, whereas the US stockpile is almost entirely military. The UK is currently engaged in a debate about…
Comeback time already? I’m pretty sure this was made of concrete. Following are some excerpts from a translation of the August 26, 2008 statement of the North Korean Foreign Ministry Spokesman. The full text appears in the comments. The official…
We’ve just had a public holiday in the UK and, in consequence, a long weekend but I wanted to add a few thoughts to Jeffrey’s post last Friday about Chris Ford’s resignation. Being the US representative at NPT meetings is…
[Be careful what (comments) you ask for. Geoff Forden suggests that the premise is mistaken, and the Ashura isn’t necessarily solid-fueled at all. See the comments section below.] Say we woke up one morning, Gregor Samsa-like, to find that all…
Jeff is lucky to be out of town. It’s bad form to crow about one’s own work, but those of us gathered around the campfire while he’s in Seoul can certainly do it for him. Monday’s New York Times carries…
Let’s suppose you’re the kind of person who would read a blog like this. (You are.) Let’s further suppose that you happen to be in the Washington, DC area with a few hours to kill. Check out the Steven F.…
While I am Seoul, Busan and other interesting places, my friend Josh Pollack is going to pick up the slack on the blog this week. Josh prefers to be known as “a consultant to the U.S. Government on arms control,…
Greetings from the Atlanta Airport — I am off to the Republic of Korea this week. Before I go, I wanted to share another great talk I heard from the meeting George Lewis hosted at Cornell. Yousaf Butt, now at…
U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Chris Ford is resigning to take a job at the Hudson Institute. From: Ford, Christopher A Sent: 22 August 2008 01:59 Subject: Ford is moving on . . . . Importance: High Dear Friends:…
