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Danilov Conviction

A Russian court has convicted Russian physicist Valentin Danilov of of selling state secrets to China, overturning his earlier acquittal that angered the FSB (nee KGB). The case parallels that of Igor Sutyagin, a scholar at Moscow’s Institute of USA…

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ElBaradei Speech at Stanford

Mohamed ElBaradei gave the Drell Lecture at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, urging that “If we are ever to build a global security culture based on human solidarity and shared human values — a collective security…

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Still no Ambassador to the IAEA

I managed to miss that the Bush Administration withdrew James Cunningham’s nomination as Ambassador to the IAEA on October 8. At least until Richard Boucher admitted yesterday that he had no idea who was representing the United States in Vienna:…

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Paris Negotiations Update 6: Majlis on Enrichment

Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network, via FBIS, has a discussion with a pair of parliamentarians of the Majlis bill obligating the Iranian governrment to resume uranium enrichment. The guests agree that the bill obligates Iran to resume…

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Ted Taylor, 1929-2004

Theodore “Ted” Taylor, nuclear weaponeer and disarmament advocate, died on October 28. Dr. Taylor worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1948 to 1956, designing a series of very large, pure fission bombs intended as a back-up in the…

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Arms Control Today on Outer Space

Arms Control Today has a special issue on outer space, with an article by Michael Krepon. You may recognize the author the boxes entitled Programs to Watch and False Alarm on Foreign Capabilities. Theresa Hitchens has an article about our…

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Status of Iran

A summary of recent developments in Iran-European 3 (Britain, France, Germany) negotiations—covering the EU3 proposal, Iranian counterproposal, developments in Iranian politics and US policy.