Some of you may remember that, over my summer vacation, I visited the first Chinese nuclear weapons design base, in Qinghai Province. (See What I Did Over Summer Vacation: China’s Los Alamos July 6, 2005). A loyal reader notes that…
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle revealed new studies that suggest plutonium ages rather well (much like Sophia Loren, I observed). Sterngold is back with a longer article on the subject: Although…
ACA got a copy of a U.S. proposal that’s to be discussed in an NSG meeting taking place today and tomorrow. The proposal text, along with Daryl Kimball’s commentary, is below. ******* March 21, 2006 Colleagues: In my email post…
Yeah, I am the expert. That is why I am here to fix the cable. Hey, all, the blog is a semifinalist for a Koufax Award in the category of best expert blog. If you think the blog is deserving,…
Apologies for the light blogging. Things are settling down here in Cambridge, so I should be back to a regular schedule. Elaine Shannon, writing in Time, answers another question that I had about the data on that purloined Iranian laptop,…
You know what would be awesome? If we could slam a B61 nuclear bomb into the ground. You know, real hard … Yeah, that would be awesome. See page 3 for a description and picture.
FT has excerpts. So does Reuters. According to that news agency, this is the part that the P5 are arguing about: “Requests that the director general of the IAEA reports to the Security Council in [14] days on Iranian compliance…
The world knows what successful cooperative disarmament looks like. When a country decides to disarm, and to provide to the world verifiable evidence that it has disarmed, there are three common elements to its behavior: The decision to disarm is…
The section of this document excerpted below contains the details about the facilities that are to be covered under the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement. Asked at a RANSAC hill briefing last week why the list seemed incomplete, consultant to the…
Following up on Jeffrey’s earlier post , the text of the US-India Nuclear Atrocity tabled in the Indian Parliament 7 March can be found here. This State Department fact sheet is also worth reading. More items of interest: *Wade Boese…
