There is a storm brewing over in Vienna about whether the IAEA should cease technical cooperation with Syria on account of the latter’s suspected nuclear programme. The IAEA Director General weighed in on Monday. According to Reuters IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei urged governors to approve the aid project, saying there was no legal basis for …
Designing Iran’s ICBM from the Ground Up
by | 2008-11-25 | 16 Comments
Click on the image for a larger view. Regular readers of the wonk will know that I originally thought Iran would have invested its initial time and effort in developing a new, more energetic, propellant rather than a new thrust vector control mechanism or, at the very least, do both in parallel. They may very …
Build New or Buy Old?
by | 2008-11-24 | 20 Comments
Up until about a year ago, potential home owners in the US had to ask themselves “Do I want to buy new or go with an existing home?” (Now, of course, there aren’t any potential home buyers.) Missile proliferators have had to ask themselves a very similar question and they too almost always answered: “I’ll …
WaPo on Nuclear Tourism
by | 2008-11-24 | No Comments
On Sunday, WaPo ran an article about visiting Oscar Zero, a missile silo in North Dakota. (See the State Historical Society of North Dakota website and an article in the Bismarck Tribune.) You can’t actually visit it yet. And the article doesn’t contain any actual details about the visit — it is largely an exercise …
