Avatar photoIAEA DG Reports on Iran, DPRK

Here are the IAEA Director-General’s, entitled Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2011/54) and Application of Safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (GOV_2011_53).

Avatar photoThe Case Against ElBaradei

Our colleague John Carlson, the former head of the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (ASNO), has joined the list of those burned by the Wikileaks cable dump.

Avatar photoDe-alerting and De-legitimization

In the September/October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs [“Smaller and Safer, A New Plan for Nuclear Postures”] Bruce Blair and his co-authors argue that de-alerting is an important step to prevent nuclear terrorism as well as a tool to de-legitimize nuclear weapons: These [high readiness] postures also perpetuate a mutual reliance on nuclear weapons that …

Avatar photoNo Shoot Down

In the comments over my recent post on Libya’s remaining stockpile of Scud B missiles, some commentators asked about press reports that NATO aircraft shot down a Scud B. I can now confirm that did not/not happen.