Much of the international press—including the BBC, Reuters and AFP—quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki calling the Security Council call for the suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities “illogical.” Despite the giggling and Spock jokes, the transcript on the Iranian Foreign…
Last week, Steve Clemons posted about an Aspen conference of foreign policy luminaries who discussed solutions to the Iran nuclear issue. I’ll be interested to learn what they came up with. Anyway, Steve wrote that …the single most important consensus…
I’ve seen a couple of news stories about the Appeal to Parliamentarians on the Indo-US Nuclear Deal issud by the usual suspects—prominent Indian nuclear scientists who oppose the US-India nuclear deal. I haven’t seen a copy posted elsewhere yet, so…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently started his own blog. There’s a link to the English-language site. [RFE/RL via Payvand News]. FYI, Ahmadinejad’s 60 Minutes interview, which aired last night, can be found here. Kim Jong-il has had his own…
ACA has posted some documents describing proposals made by Iran, the E3, and the P5+1. As far as I know, some have never been made public before. [Such as this one, this one, and this one.] I referenced some of…
James A. Van Allen, discoverer of the Earth’s radiation belts, died on Wednesday, aged 91. Others will record Van Allen’s scientific achievements and the loved ones he leaves behind. I remember Van Allen most, however, for how then-President John F.…
Sorry, couldn’t resist. By now, most of you have probably heard that the London Sunday Times reports that a shipment of smuggled uranium from Congo was intercepted on its way to Iran: IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of…
I recently ran across this December article from La Repubblica which contains an interesting piece of information RE: the Iraq/Niger/uranium thing. [Translation and original link via the Leftcoaster.] Members of the “Iraq really was uranium shopping” crowd, such as Christopher…
Cool huh? All things considered—access control, double perimeter, revetted buildings—that looks a lot like nuclear weapons storage to me. I’ve oft noted that the intelligence community believes the Chinese keep their warheads stored seperately from their ballistic missiles. A declassified…
You may have to squint a little. The image, of the IGS 1B and Lacrosse 4 satellites moving across the night sky, was taken by Macro Langbroek. The SEESAT list has a fascinating discussion about the shape and configuration of…
