Here are the latest DG Reports on Iran and Syria Post first, read later. Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, GOV/2009/8 Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic, GOV/2009/9 …
Did Congress Define "New" Nukes?
by | 2009-02-18 | 12 Comments
I attended the PONI debate last week between Joe Cirincione and Clark Murdock about whether the United States should modernize the arsenal with the Reliable Replacement Warhead. It was a very interesting and lively debate. I enjoyed myself, and that wasn’t just the Pabst Blue Ribbon I was drinking. Murdock said a few things that …
Acheson-Lilienthal Already Said It
by | 2009-02-18 | 9 Comments
The most recent edition of Survival has a section on “Reinforcing the NPT”. One of the articles, “The Problem with Nuclear Mind Reading”, is by me (non-printable proof available here), and the other, entitled “Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance”, is by former IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards, Pierre Goldschmidt (available for free here). My article asks …
Fun With FCNL
by | 2009-02-17 | 6 Comments
I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague noticed this little entry in the current calendar: Feb. or March North Korea tests its …
