In comments addressed to and posted by Jeffrey on Friday, John Carlson drew attention to my omission of a 2008 IAEA visit to Syria in my Carnegie article on the IAEA board of governors’ resolution GOV/2011/40, concerning IAEA access to Syria following the August, 2007 Israeli air attack which destroyed the alleged reactor at Dair …
Carlson on Syria
by | 2011-07-01 | 13 Comments
John Carlson sent along a comment about Mark’s post,A Bridge Too Far? Syria & GOV/40. It was too important to bury in the comments, so I thought I would put it here: Syria and safeguards non-compliance – a “new paradigm”? John Carlson In a recent article (Carnegie Commentary 17 June 2011) Mark Hibbs suggests the …
Six Years Later (II)
by | 2011-06-30 | 11 Comments
The Bush administration was very adept at creating a sense of political inevitability behind its proposed civil nuclear cooperation agreement with India. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that, “Looking back decades from now, we will recognize this moment as the time when America invested the strategic capital needed to recast its relationship with India.” …
ENR Transfers, Pending
by | 2011-06-27 | 18 Comments
I just wrote a long post about not getting the Additional Protocol in the new NSG guidelines — but there is some language in a different spot that I skipped over. Hold that thought … it may not be so bad, after all.
