Nothing says “wonkporn” like a centrifuge rotor, especially one made of carbon fiber. Here is how Iraqi nuclear weaponeer Mahdi Obeidi described his “first time” seeing a URENCO TC-11 segment made of carbon fiber. Then he showed us a centrifuge rotor, which surprised me because it was a highly classified object. Roughly the same dimensions …
Happy Hour, Big Hunt, Th @ 6:00
by | 2008-04-08 | 5 Comments
James Acton is going to be in town to give a couple of talks — one at AEI and the other, Nuclear Mind Reading: Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and the IAEA at the New America Foundation on Wednesday at 12:15. (RSVP) To celebrate, we are going to throw a Happy Hour at the Big Hunt on …
800 NORK Ballistic Missiles
by | 2008-04-07 | 12 Comments
I am creating a new category called “data points.” Lieutenant General Walter L. Sharp, nominated to be Commander, United States Forces Korea, estimates the size of the North Korean missile stockpile in his answers to advance policy questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee: North Korea continues to build missiles of increasing range, lethality and …
300 IR-2s?
by | 2008-04-04 | 34 Comments
We’re just four days away from National Nuclear Technology Day in Iran when no doubt President Ahmadinejad will have another big announcement to make. In preparation, Iran seems to have been installing some more P-2s IR-2s (ooops, sorry). George Jahn and Mark Heinrich have both got stories on this, but their efforts have produced some …
