Seymour Hersh deserves every one of many awards for investigative journalism he has received, but not for his reporting on Pakistan, where his sourcing is weak and his conclusions are suspect. Hersh’s latest, Defending the Arsenal, Can Pakistan’s nuclear weapons be secured? (The New Yorker, November 16, 2009) has one headline grabbing assertion: Current and …
Modified Limited Hangout @ Qom, MNSR
by | 2009-11-16 | 43 Comments
Now that the IAEA’s latest Iran and Syria reports have leaked out, the fun begins. The conversations last September in Tehran about the enrichment site at Qom must have been really something. Perhaps they went something like this: PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the—let it …
IAEA BoG Reports
by | 2009-11-16 | 1 Comment
Here they are: Iran and Syria. The Iran report has lots of details on Qom site (also known as Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant), which the IAEA places at 20 km north of Qom.
The Blue and Yellow Bomb (Part 1)
by | 2009-11-16 | 8 Comments
Jeffrey and I have something in common. I’m Swedish. In his youth, Jeffrey went to some Swedish school (Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois). And we’ve both developed an interest in nuclear weapons issues. But what do Madonna and nuclear weapons have in common? Nothing except that Nothing Really Matters was shot on the site …
