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 …
Yes, It's the Other Area
by | 2010-02-06 | 7 Comments
Oh, shut up already! Some enterprising Belgian military spokesperson has decided to announce to the entire world that of the two sets of 11 hardened shelters at Kleine Brogel Airbase, the activists were in the one without nuclear weapons: A similar stunt occurred last November, according to Ingrid Baeck, a chief spokeswoman for the Belgian …
