I am working on a series of longer posts related to monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, but wanted to share an amusing paragraph from the March 2009 edition of Science & Technology Review, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s magazine. (I love S&T Review, by the way.) I sometimes joke that, if the intelligence …
More Debate Re: The EastWest Institute JTA
by | 2009-09-01 | 24 Comments
Diagram of Iranian liquid-propellant missiles from the EWI–JTA Technical Appendix. The latest debate, however, mainly focuses on Iran’s solid-propellant missiles. If I knew a year ago what I know now, I wouldn’t have lost so much money in the stock market. But as important as that money would have been when I retire, it was …
Pakistan Blocks Consensus in CD
by | 2009-08-31 | 3 Comments
For those us hoping that the Conference on Disarmament would get down to business on negotiation a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty, Britain’s PermRep to the CD tweeted some very disappointing news: Conference on Disarmament fails to unblock decision to start work on FMCT. Very disappointing that 1 country unable to join the compromise. The “1 …
Twenty-Two Cascades Under Vacuum
by | 2009-08-28 | 51 Comments
Iran is not slowing its nuclear program, ok? I know the headlines keep saying it, but it ain’t so — look for yourself. Count the black and gray bars, not just the black ones. The most recent IAEA report on Iran makes clear that Iran continues the pattern noted on this blog of installing about …
