You may have noticed that IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei announced that North Korea has asked the IAEA to remove the seals and surveillance equipment on the reprocessing facility: This morning, the DPRK authorities asked the Agency´s inspectors to remove seals and surveillance equipment to enable them to carry out tests at the reprocessing plant, which …
START: Dead Treaty Walking
by | 2008-09-22 | 2 Comments
Josh Meyer in the Los Angeles Times has an excellent article about the potential casualties of the Russia-Georgia conflict — including the START Treaty. Some high-level meetings have been postponed indefinitely, including a trip to Russia by John Rood, the acting undersecretary of State for arms control and international security, to discuss various security issues …
Greetings from Jacksonville
by | 2008-09-21 | 5 Comments
Well actually Yulee, Florida — home of the White Oak Conservation Center. Sorry about the light posting of late. James is relocating to the US and I am here in Florida wrapping up a couple of days at a conference sponsored by the National Security Network and the Howard Gilman Foundation. I’ve got lots of …
Hayden on Al Kibar
by | 2008-09-17 | 34 Comments
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. …
