Bush Will Use 2nd Term to Sack ElBaradei
If Bush wins re-election, Washington will “move from urging him to [leave the IAEA] to active opposition” to his reappointment, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.
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Bushehr Update
Another colleague who saw the same unclassified-but-not-publicly-available Livermore briefing on Bushehr “came away with the same sense – the reactor, in large part because of its mixed design heritage is a piece of garbage. It is, of course, true that…
More on Iran
Michael Roston notes that, during his time at RANSAC, he sat in on a briefing from someone from Livermore who made the case that the Bushehr is not suitable for a nuclear weapons program. That technical fact leads to a…
National Labs Suspending Work on Iran?
I hear the Secretary of Energy has halted all work at the national laboratories on Iran. Why? There is no public explanation, but speculation centers on the role of DOE analysts in making the Administration look liars on the issue…
Huge in China
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Iranian Enrichment Facility at Natanz
From Reuters today … [An opposition group] sparked the investigation of Iran’s nuclear programme when it said in August 2002 that Iran was hiding a massive underground uranium enrichment site at Natanz and a heavy-water production plant at Arak. The…
Military Intelligence
Bill Gertz has a story about a National Security Agency employee, Russ Tice, recently terminated after a pair of psychiatric evaluations found him “mentally unbalanced.” Defense officials are telling the Washington Times that Tice is being persecuted for reporting suspicions…
Bashing ElBaradei
One of the competing narratives being pushed by the Bush Administration on the HDX/RDX story is the “jilted Mohamed” hypothesis. “Bush administration officials suspect political motivation behind a letter focused on the disappearance of 377 tons of explosives sent yesterday…
Up and running
Well, for the second time in something like six months, I’ve lost an entire hard drive. I hadn’t backed up in about a month, so this was really catastrophic. Anyway, I am starting to put my electronic life back together…
Bolton: US Will Not Support 3rd Term for IAEA's El Baradei
The Nelson Report claims that Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton has informed IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei that “the US will not support his candidacy for a third term, even though both of his predecessors served four terms…