NRDC’s Tom Cochran has released a pretty compelling rebuttal of David Albright’s estimate of the capacity of Pakistan’s new plutonium production reactor. Albright, writing with Paul Brannan, estimated the capacity of the new reactor in excess of 1000 MW; NSC…
Dave Kang—Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth and Managing the Atom Research Associate—sends along his thoughts on North Korea’s announcement of an impending North Korean nuclear test: Will North Korea actually test? What do they hope to get…
By now, you’ve probably heard that the DPRK has announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test. (The BBC has a translation of the Korean statement; the original is here.) The money line is: The DPRK Foreign Ministry is authorized…
Nice to wake up to. Reuters, via CNN, has part of of the North Korean FM statement. Here’s the scary part: Firstly, the field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the…
Decibel Magazine has an interview with Ice-T where he discusses, among other topics, some current foreign policy issues. It’s pretty sweet. Here’s what he had to say about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the status of North Korea’s…
The New York University Law School Magazine contains “a rare in-depth profile of Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04), who runs the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner believes that, to forestall violence, the…
Hey folks, sorry for the long absence. Xiamen is fantastic … much more exciting than the blue glow of my laptop. What little time I’ve spent online has been sunk on my book, a forthcoming article and, you know, managing…
Alex Glaser and Scott Kemp (above) gave a talk on Gas Centrifuges and the future of nonproliferation at Tsinghua University, with Li Bin as host. The talk was cool, but the diagram of the centrifuge is HOT, supplanting the very…
NPR had a good segment [Via Laura Rozen ] earlier today about, among other things, the Pentagon’s new Iran desk. It notes that several of its staffers worked for OSD’s Office of Special Plans. [FYI, one of those staffers, Abram…
In the July 2005 joint statement with President Bush, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committed India to “harmonization and adherence to Missile Technology Control Regime. The House legislation to implement the US-India nuclear deal: (more) would terminate exports of nuclear…
