Greetings from … Belgium, I think. I am in Europe this week — Den Haag, Bruxelle, Paris and London. Four cities in seven days. I came back from my meetings today to discover, according to A-bomb, that “Iran has joined the world’s top 11 countries possessing space technology to build satellites, and launch rockets into …
Suspect Missile Facility Near Tabriz, Iran
by | 2008-02-01 | 15 Comments
Remember that crazy, though possibly true BM-25 story? One detail in the story, originally published by Bild, was that BND had identified a suspect facility near Tabriz. Reader Allen Thomson noticed that someone recently ordered a Digital Globe Image of Tabriz and found what looks a lot like a missile facility to me at 38.252 …
Get a whiff of this!
by | 2008-01-31 | 6 Comments
Yesterday’s Global Security Newswire has a hilarious story about a Laboratory Preparedness Survey in 2007 (an exercise in which labs are required to identify an unknown pathogen). Obviously, it’s funny for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a taster (or should that be a sniff): Written instructions included with the testing kits directed laboratory personnel to …
Analyzing NORK U
by | 2008-01-30 | 4 Comments
Jeffrey set me a challenge by last week. Before outlining it and my answer, some background might be in order first… As he outlined in a recent post, in their November draft declaration, the North Koreans continued to deny the existence of a uranium enrichment program. But, in response to US queries, they were willing …
