The Hebrew word for nuclear opacity or ambiguity is amimut, which Avner Cohen believes to be “Israel’s original contribution to the nuclear age.” Avner has written two books on Israel’s bomb. His latest, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb (2010) acknowledges the prior utility of amimut, while highlighting its corrosive effects for “democratic …
Uranium Deuteride Initiatiors Redux
by | 2011-05-25 | 33 Comments
ISIS has published the IAEA Director-General’s reports on Iran and Syria. Paragraph 35 of the Iran report reveals that Iran conducted “experiments involving the explosive compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons” — research that has no known application other than for nuclear weapons. Although this information was reported in December …
Panel of Exports Report on DPRK
by | 2011-05-24 | 5 Comments
I missed that the Daniel Halper at the Weekly Standard has a copy of the May 2011 Panel of Experts Report on North Korea. How come I didn’t get the document like last year?!
Tunnel Re-sealing at Semipalatinsk
by | 2011-05-23 | 7 Comments
A few months ago, I blogged about Operation Groundhog — an effort to secure nuclear material left by the Soviet Union at the former Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Efforts in Kazakhstan, like the sealing of 178 nuclear test tunnels, were initially public. (The tunnel sealing was said to be complete in 2000.) I noticed that …
