DPRK and HEU
I followed up on Jeffrey’s excellent posts on the North Korean HEU program. Regrettably, there are no entertaining foreign diplomat stories. Oh well.
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Taepodong Model
Yeah, that’s a Taepodong model. Geoff Forden and I have been making different sorts of models of the TD-1 and TD-2, but that is another story. (Hat tip to reader RH.) Update The Robot Economist is a sick, funny bastard.
Congo nuclear official arrested
Reuters and a number of other sources are reporting the arrest of Fortunat Lumu, Commissioner General for Atomic Energy in Democratic Republic of the Congo, over suspected plans to illegally sell uranium. Basically, this is all the info: a Kinshasa…
Levin to Bob n' Condi on NORK HEU
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asks SECSTATE and SECDEF about that incredible, shrinking North Korean HEU program including questions about the basis for assessing that a large-scale centrifuge facility was under construction and whether…
Still More On North Korea and Disablement
Two short posts on the subject over at my place.
USSR and ASAT Testing
I did a short post about a good ACT piece by Wade which contains a short discussion of Soviet ASAT testing. In other news, someone at an event the other night said they recognized me from my avatar. Weird.
START Talking
Remember how the intelligence community warned that it won’t be able to verify the Moscow Treaty after the START inspection protocol lapses? The Bush Administration, Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times, wants to keep it that way: The Bush administration…
Vote fast, contest ends tomorrow
We have selected Елена Изотова as the ACW favorite for Miss Atom. She is #6 on the list already so we just need to bump her up a few spots. Elena is a nuclear waste reprocessing engineer at the Chernobyl…
More On Disablement
Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department…
Size Matters
I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office…