Text of P5+1 Offer to Iran
I imagine this has made the rounds, but Iran Focus has a copy: Text is below: ELEMENTS OF A PROPOSAL TO IRAN Our goal is to develop relations and cooperation with Iran based on mutual respect and the establishment of…
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Der Spiegel ElBaradei Interview
The interview is short, but covers a fair amount of ground. Here’s what he said about Iran: SPIEGEL: Iran is Hezbollah’s main source of funding. Many Middle East experts believe that Tehran’s mullah-led regime is behind the current escalation, hoping…
So Long, Cheyenne Mountain
Well, the folks at the Target Store in Colorado Springs can breath a sigh of relief: NORAD is moving up the road to Peterson Air Force Base and putting Cheyenne Mountain on standby. The Denver Post has some nice images…
Reliable Replacement Warhead Redux
Haninah Levine has the second of what will be four articles at DefenseTech.org on the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. In these cases, a dilemma arises: should the nuclear production complex go to extreme lengths to recreate the processes needed to…
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Khan Network: Steve Coll in New Yorker
As far as I can tell, the New Yorker hasn’t posted Steve Coll’s piece on the Khan network yet, but they have a Q&A transcript on their website that’s worth checking out. This excerpt about the time frame for an…
UNSC Iran Resolution
Here’s a copy of UNSC resolution 1696. Qatar didn’t vote for it…everyone else did. Here are the three most important paragraphs: “7. Requests by 31 August a report from the Director General of the IAEA primarily on whether Iran has…
Urs Tinner
The bird must be destroyed, feathers and all. They fed us to the dogs. Those were a pair of SMS messages, exchanged by accused middlemen Gerhard Wisser and Johan Meyer, after Libya came out of the cold and admitted to…
WaPo on Secret BW Lab
I love this part of today’s BW piece by Joby Warrick: Current and former administration officials say that compliance with the treaty hinges on intent, and that making small amounts of biowarfare pathogens for study is permitted under a broad…
Note to CFR.org: BBC China =/= PSI Op
Eben Kaplan wrote a piece a few weeks ago about the PSI. Overall, it’s not bad. But it contains an all-too-frequent error. He wrote: Among the PSI’s most notable successes was the 2003 interception of a shipment of nuclear centrifuge…