Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang announced that North Korea would return to Six Party Talks on September 13. Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post reports that John Lewis, Sig Hecker and Jack Pritchard have returned from a trip to…
The Institute for Science and International Security has published the first ever satellite photograph of India’s Rattehalli Rare Materials Plant (RMP)—a gas centrifuge facility with several hundred subcritical centrifuge rotor assemblies operating at less 3 SWU/year per machine—located near Mysore…
A couple of days ago, I blogged about China’s export controls, specifically relating to missiles. One issue was the difficulty of enforcing controls on commercial items such as aluminum powder used to paint heating equipment, powder that can also be…
David Albright mentions that “a very important member of the Khan network in South Africa sold to India’s gas centrifuge program” at 11:46 in his interview with Terry Gross on NPR. See my previous post on India’s Nonproliferation Record.
Writing in Arms Control Today, Paul fills in the backstory about the recent NIE suggesting Iran is many years away from a nuclear weapon. Skepticism about Iran’s nuclear capabilities dates at least to an early 2004 briefing for Congressional staffers…
And the fact is that India has a record of nonproliferation, which is exceptional … Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Briefing on the Signing of the Global Partnership Agreement Between the United States and India, July…
Chris Mooney—writer for SEED magazine and author of the forthcoming The Republican War on Science—has an outstanding article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists about the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)—a nonpartisan technical authority abolished by the GOP-controlled Congress in…
Steve Clemons runs a hell of a conference. I’ll be live blogging today from the New America Foundation’s conference, Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose. It’s being webcast, in case you want to drop by, virtually speaking.
In 1998, China backed out of a contract to build a Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) for Iran—a victory for US nonproliferation policy during the Clinton Administration. Iran built the facility using the designs China had already provided. Apparently, there were…
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67) has several paragraphs devoted to Iran’s the Gchine uranium mine and mill, near Bandar Abbas. ElBaradei provided some background on the Gchine mine in 2004: In the…
