Another installment of the best (and only) regular ACW post! The White House | “…varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used [sarin] on a small scale…” Joseph Holliday says that Assad has outfoxed Obama. Nature | From prison in Iran, a graduate student writes that he refused to work on a laser-based …
Reconverting Iran’s U3O8 to UF6
by | 2013-04-27 | 46 Comments
What do we really know about Iran’s capability to reconvert triuranium octoxide (U3O8) enriched to 20% U-235 back into UF6 feedstock that can be further enriched to produce weapon-grade uranium? Can Iran do it? And if so, how fast? The answer matters considerably, as Iran, Israel, and the P5+1 will make decisions this year, based …
Syria and Sarin
by | 2013-04-25 | 26 Comments
A few thoughts on where we are with the allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria.
George Bunn
by | 2013-04-24 | 6 Comments
George Bunn, a gentle spirit with a fixed resolve to help make the world less hospitable to nuclear weapons, died on Sunday. In an earlier post, I referred to George as a norm builder — one facet of a life well-lived. Some of the others can be found in this obituary released by Stanford University: …
