There is a lot of hullaballo about North Korea reversing the disablement procedures at Yongbyon. I take the measures seriously as a signal by Pyongyang, but it is important to keep in mind that the substance of the reversal is quite limited. As the news reports indicate, North Korea had completed eight of the eleven …
NSG Exemption (Take 2)
by | 2008-09-04 | 27 Comments
The Arms Control Association has the revised text for India’s draft NSG exemption. I thought it might be fun to compare, word for word, the old text with the new. It wasn’t (I got rather obsessive about it). However, I hope it might prove useful for some of you. Apart from lots of fiddling the …
State Department Answers on India
by | 2008-09-03 | 9 Comments
Howard Berman has released the long-awaited State Department responses to more than 40 questions the House Foreign Affairs Committee asked about the US-India Nuclear Debacle in October 2007. You can find them on the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center website. Glenn Kessler explains that the questions were kept secret to protect the Indian government: The correspondence …
Sabotage! Dutch-style.
by | 2008-09-02 | 28 Comments
Conversations about a recent news report in the Dutch paper De Telegraaf — that Netherlands has recalled a spy/saboteur from Iran’s nuclear program in fear of an impending attack — are filling my inbox. Here is the crucial bit of the story: AMSTERDAM – De Nederlandse inlichtingendienst AIVD heeft de afgelopen jaren een ultrageheime operatie …
