Update | Read the text of the Joint Plan of Action. From the White House release: Halting the Progress of Iran’s Program and Rolling Back Key Elements Iran has committed to halt enrichment above 5%: Halt all enrichment above 5% and dismantle the technical connections required to enrich above 5%. Iran has committed to neutralize its …
The Curious Case of Red Mercury
by | 2013-11-19 | 5 Comments
Reader Chris Camp, who submitted as essay on disarmament “winners and losers“, has been thinking about the curious tale of Red Mercury lately. He sends along this dispatch: The curious tale of Red Mercury by Chris Camp In the lore of any field there are stories that, while not driving the narrative forward, give it …
FYRP: Iran Talks, Round 2
by | 2013-11-19 | 14 Comments
Well, it’s been a while, but it has returned! Safeguards Report – IAEA Board of Governors | “No additional major components have been installed at the IR-40 Reactor; the production of UO2 for fuel assemblies for the reactor has continued at FMP; no additional fuel assemblies have yet been completed.” That’s a win. Although we …
Optimists and Cynics
by | 2013-11-18 | 15 Comments
All of the significant gains in the field of arms control were the result of stubborn optimism mixed with idealism. Pessimists thought nuclear arms control was a fool’s errand, bound to end very badly, like naval arms control in the 1920s and 1930s. It was preposterous to think that the superpowers could agree to refrain …
