WaPo’s Dafna Linzer reports that the Congress has asked for an intelligence assessment on India’s nonproliferation record, particularly its ties to Iran: In a Jan. 23 letter to John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, the ranking chairmen of the…
Stephen Aftergood’s Secrecy News commends SECDEF nominee Bob Gates on his record regarding openness, oversight: ROBERT GATES ON OPENNESS, OVERSIGHT As Director of Central Intelligence from 1991-1993, Robert M. Gates, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, grappled…
Google Earth now has high resolution imagery of what is generally believed to be China’s Guangyuan plutonium production reactor. Click on the image for a .kmz file. The annotations are reproduced from David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, Chinese Military Plutonium…
Indian authorities have stopped a North Korean ship headed to Iran. [cue suspense music…] Except, it was empty! [GASP] “MV Omrani-II” developed a snag and entered Indian waters on October 29 and was towed to the Mumbai Port where the…
A new IISS Strategic Comment—“North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Continuing Reverberations”—confirms statements by US and South Korean officials that the NORKs gave the Chinese all of twenty minutes notice before the nuclear test: Chinese sources confirm that North Korea informed Beijing…
Should I be uneasy that six countries have recently expressed a newfound interest in nuclear energy? The Middle East Economic Digest, which a number of the other news sources like The Times are referencing, quotes IAEA deputy-director general Tomihiro Taniguchi…
Studio 360 is featuring a radio show about the bomb, with guest Richard Rhodes, who is, as always, awesome. The show starts off with a short bio of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is a bit too simple and sentimental, but…
So, I am thumbing through Richard Grimmett’s CRS report Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1998-2005 to find this phrase: Other non-European suppliers [ahem, North Korea] … delivered [to Near East region during the 2002-2005 period] 40 surface-to-surface missiles, a…
Managing the Atom has acquired copies of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (AFCI) Comparison Report and Piet et al, Fuel Cycle Scenario Definition, Evaluation, and Trade-offs INL/EXT-06-11683 (August 2006). Go hog wild. Or, if you live in Rhode Island, cohog…
So, my initial speculation about the cause of failure for North Korea’s nuclear test—remember that I thought the NORKS tried to reduce the size of the warhead with fancy implosion techniques—seems to have gained some credibility. (See So, Like, Why…
