IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano was at the Council on Foreign Relations for an hour of on-the-record discussion yesterday. George Perkovich moderated. Here’s the link. Highlights: IAEA “will keep asking questions” to Iran about PMD in parallel with ongoing P5+1 diplomacy DPRK developments are “equally worrying” to states in the region–no IAEA verification for three years There is “basic support” …
Holiday Season Contest
by | 2012-12-06 | 14 Comments
It’s that time of year – time for the annual ACW contest for best lyrical stanzas relating to the Bomb. There are two categories for this competition, as before: (1) A lyric about the Bomb that has been written and performed and, (2) your own adaptation of a lyric that has been written and performed. …
SLA versus SLC
by | 2012-12-06 | 2 Comments
One aspect of the current tizzy over the future course for IAEA safeguards is a certain frustration expressed by a number of states about how the IAEA’s terms of reference all fit together exactly. Above all, confusion reigns in these quarters about the extent of congruity between Integrated Safeguards and State-Level Safeguards. Are they the same or not? Does the second follow from the first, or is it the other …
Iranians in North Korea?
by | 2012-12-05 | 9 Comments
Kyodo news — citing the inevitable single “Western diplomatic source” — has an interesting report that Iran has agreed to permantly station four missile (and perhaps nuclear) experts at a facility in North Korea, about 85 kilometers from the Chinese boarder. The source said the mission is comprised of four experts from Iran’s Ministry of Defense …
