The Second CWC Review Conference (2008) has a nice website and some excellent live blogging by Cheryl Voss and Daniel Feakes. Somehow, though, they both missed (I stand corrected). Cheryl Vos noticed an extraordinary statement by the Dutch Foreign Minister regarding his hopes and dreams for the OPCW: One of the world’s best ice hockey …
NAF Talk on Iran
by | 2008-04-15 | 45 Comments
I just got back from the States on Friday, and now I’m off to Brussels for a trip to NATO HQ with some students. Elaine Grossman at Global Security Newswire reported on my talk at the New America Foundation — You can view it here let me warn Hass and FSB that they aren’t going …
Iran Centrifuge Components
by | 2008-04-14 | 18 Comments
I was looking at all the pretty components laid out on the table around the IR-2 carbon fiber rotor with a ball bearing on top and thought “It would be great to identify all the parts.” So, I sent a note to Scott Kemp, at Princeton’s Program on Science and Global Security, that said, roughly …
ISIS Publishes Heinonen Notes
by | 2008-04-13 | 6 Comments
In March, the Washington Post printed two stories by Joby Warrick about Olli Heinonen’s briefing to the IAEA Board of Governors on weaponization work in Iran, based on the notes of diplomat who attended. I asked “what else is in those notes?” Well, David Albright and ISIS have published the full text of the notes …
