Regular readers know that Iran’s uranium conversion facility (UCF) at Esfahan (Isfahan) stinks—a fact Paul first reported in the October 2004 edition of Arms Control Today and which forms the basis for IC judgements about Iran’s proximity to a nuclear…
Middle East News Line (via GSN) cites Russian officials describing technical difficulties with Bushehr arising from changes to design specifications: Russia’s effort to complete Iran’s first nuclear plant continues to be hampered by technical difficulties. Russian officials said that despite…
The Six Party Joint Statement calls on North Korea to “abandon”—not “dismantle”—it’s nuclear pograms. A few days ago, I observed that Glenn Kessler and Edward Cody missed this distinction in an otherwise outstanding article. Still, I felt like I was…
In a pair of recent posts (12 JUN 2005 and 20 JUL 2005), I speculated the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) would scale back testing, largely to save itself embarrassment. Image of an intercept during from IFT-7. You won’t be seeing…
The IAEA Board of Governors has voted in favor of a resolution that finds Iran’s noncompliance with its NPT obligations to be “within the competence of the Security Council,” but does not appear to refer the issue the Security Council…
Read “The Next Killer Flu” by National Geographic’s Tim Appenzeller with photographs by Lynn Johnson. Some analysts claiming to be “tough” on security are just “stupid” on security. One class of wonks define “security” narrowly, restricting threats to the deliberate…
STP-R1 is a DARPA satellite called Streak. Space.com has the details. Air Force launch officials say it will take about nine minutes for the Minotaur to haul the STP-R1 mission to the desired orbit tonight. The satellite, dubbed Streak by…
You really have to read the foreign press if you want to understand the diplomacy surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. Case in point: What was impact of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech to the UN? The US press, led Carol Giacomo…
Max Boot, snapping pencils in frustration at CFR, sticks one in the President’s back over the Six Party Joint Statement: One suspects that if George W. Bush were not in the White House, he would be condemning the accord with…
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has released a commercial satellite photograph of North Korea’s 50 Mwe reactor that appears to confirm June 2005 press reports that Pyongyang has resumed construction. In June 2005, I argued that analysts…
