Elaine Shannon in Time has more detail on Iran’s covert military effort to produce uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) or “Green Salt. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped firm up support for the IAEA vote by having aides brief foreign officials on…
The Federation of American Scientists has Security Studies Project blog, including contributions by friend of wonk Hans Kristensen. This complements the FAS’ Secrecy News blog by Steve Aftergood.
Some of us in the arms control community, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, groused about the State Department’s decision to shut down the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board: After the George W. Bush administration came into office, the…
Yup. Real headline: PRESS RELEASE—Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs Release No. 010206 February 1,2006 Air Force leaders to discuss Air Force issues ORLANDO, Fla. – At 11:00 a.m. EST, Thursday, February 2, Secretary of the Air…
Here is the full text of Olli Heinonen’s update brief on Developments in the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Agency Verification of Iran’s Suspension of Enrichment-related and Reprocessing Activities. The document also…
Arms Control Wonk.com has a copy of the latest report by Olli Heinonen, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards, on Iran’s implementation of its safeguards agreement. I will post the full text a little later.…
Okay, dear readers, I think we have managed to repair the feed. Let me know if it is working again. And “Hans Brix, Oh No!” has been moved here.
Inside Defense has published excerpts from a draft of the Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR announced that DOD will “reduce the number of deployed Minuteman III ballistic missiles from 500 to 450.” This raises an interesting question—what happens to the…
Hans Blix rules. Yesterday, during the ACA Annual Meeting, Dr. Hans Blix — Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and fromer head of UNMOVIC — referred to his cameo in Team America: World Police. Actually, he RE-ENACTED THE…
A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped…
