Avatar photoHayden on Al Kibar

CIA Director Michael Hayden recently provided an extended discussion of the timeline leading up to the identification and destruction of the probable Syrian reactor at Al Kibar: Thanks to some outstanding intelligence work, we were able last year to spoil a big secret, a project that could have provided Syria with plutonium for nuclear weapons. …

Avatar photoNORK Missile Facility Spotted in 06/07

Looks like eagle-eyed observers in the GoogleEarth community spotted the North Korean Space Launch Facility as early as December 2006 and January 2007 Very, very cool.

Avatar photoMore on New NORK Missile Facility

Yonhap has two excellent articles on the new missile and space launch facility near Tongchang-ri that was first publicly identified by Joseph Brmudez and Tim Brown: Kim Kwi-ku’n: “What Is the Missile Base in North Korea’s Tongch’ang-ri for? — ‘Likelihood of Launching Artificial Satellites — Relation to Nuclear Weapons Delivery Means’” Yonhap, September 14, 2008. …

Avatar photoDG Report On Iran (GOV/2008/38)

Speaking of Vienna, the IAEA DG report on Iran is on the ISIS website (Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007) and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, GOV/2008/38, 15 September 2008). The bottom line is that Iran has 2,952 centrifuges in one …