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Koufax Nominations

Dear Readers: Apologies for being so darned busy, what with the move to Cambridge and all. I wanted to let you know that Arms Control Wonk.com has been nominated for a handful of Koufax Awards including Best Blog (non-professional), Most…

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The Pentagon Wants You…

…to link to its websites. I thought I’d start off my guest hosting of the Wonk’s blog by a little navel-gazing. Join with me, won’t you? U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)’s public affairs office has been working since last summer to…

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Sixty Freaking Five Percent?

India’s Prime Minister has released a statement on India’s plan to separate civil and military nuclear facilities. The “civilian list” will contain less than 2/3 of India’s nuclear power reactors, by MWe: Therefore our proposed Separation Plan entails identifying in…

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IAEA GOV/2006/15

Here is the latest IAEA Report by the Director General concerning Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran is flat out denying the Green Salt claim: 38. On 5 December 2005, the Secretariat repeated…

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Executive Director, Managing the Atom

As most of you know already, I am leaving the University of Maryland to become the Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard…

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Centrifuges & Limited Enrichment

Iran’s Chief nuclear negotiator gave an interview to Inter France Radio (in French) that was little noticed until the Iranian Embassy released his remarks. Here is how IRNA reported his comments: Larijani said that the best guarantee for peacefulness of…

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Springtime for Kim Jong Il

Barbara Demick swaps her column inches as ace international reporter for the Los Angeles Times for a turn as theater critic … sort of: Perhaps not since Mel Brooks conceived “Springtime for Hitler” in the comedy “The Producers” has there…

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Where Would Jesus Look for WMD?

WWJLWMD, indeed. Apprently, William Tierney—leaker of the Saddam Tapes—is just too weird, even for Byron York and National Review Online: National Review Online February 20, 2006 “He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The former U.N.…

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Iran's Underground UF4 Plant

Last week, Dafna Linzer had a long, detailed story (and online chat) on intelligence found by German intelligence on a laptop computer stolen by an Iranian citizen in 2004. I am writing a four-part series looking at the key pieces…

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Chinese Underground Facilities

Click here for a GoogleEarth placemark. Tom Cochran, Matt McKinzie, Stan Norris, Laura Harrison and Hans Kristensen have a cool article, China’s Nuclear Forces: The World’s First Look at China’s Underground Facilities for Nuclear Warheads, in Imaging Notes. The images,…