Moritz Bleibtreu and Martina Gedeck as Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof in the 2009 film, The Baader Meinhof Complex. Jeffrey’s posts and videos of the walkabout at the NATO nuclear weapon storage site in Belgium reminded me of a story with a much sharper edge that I retold in Better Safe than Sorry. ACW readers …
Iran to Enrich 20 Percent LEU
by | 2010-02-09 | 35 Comments
Iran’s announcements that it is going to produce 20 percent Highly Enriched Uranium is bad news — not least because the Iranians said they would do so without respect to the presumably doomed TRR fuel swap. (Though this thing has risen from the dead so many times, maybe I should start calling it the Zombie …
Seibersdorf!
by | 2010-02-09 | 1 Comment
Josh Pollack happened upon this amazing video of Safeguards Analytical Laboratory at Seibersdorf. Some briefs shots of what looks like Tuwaitha, Yongbyon (inside) and Pelindaba. Which got me thinking that the IAEA must have a spectacular video library. It turns out the IAEA has a channel on YouTube, including a video on an inspection of …
N. Korea: Deadly in a Snowball Fight
by | 2010-02-07 | 4 Comments
Part Two of a two-part series on the 2010 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. See Part One. Well, it’s been a long, snowbound weekend here in the Nation’s Capital and its general vicinity. There’s not much to do while waiting for the Super Bowl commercials — assuming that your home has power …
