Friend of wonk Jackie Shire sends along this lament about the passing of the much maligned UNMOVIC: With a whimper … Jacqueline Shire I should be in a good mood—it’s Friday and I have family coming this weekend for several birthdays and a cupcake taste test (long story involving my chef mother, and the relative …
Gabala Radar: Instead of vs. in Addition to
by | 2007-06-29 | 4 Comments
I want to follow up on a few issues on President Putin’s Gabala radar proposal. First, U.S. and Russia are currently talking about rather different conceptions of the plan, and second, both high level Russian officials and the press are gearing up for the plan to be rejected. My Plan, Your Plan Russia intends the …
A Conversation with Mark Hibbs
by | 2007-06-26 | 2 Comments
I’ve kept up an e-mail conversation with Mark Hibbs on-and-off for that past couple of years. So, I was really psyched to meet him in person at this year’s Carnegie Conference. Apparently, I am not the only one. With a huge amount of notoriety from Bill Langewiesche’s Atomic Bazaar, Hibbs finds himself on the dais …
Detecting & Thwarting Proliferation Networks
by | 2007-06-26 | No Comments
Good morning. This is a Calutron used to enrich uranium in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program. After the 1991 Gulf War, IAEA inspectors found that the Iraqi’s had set up Calutrons, using dual-use products like oil diffusion pumps (right). Many companies, including Germany’s Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum, had sold such pumps to Iraq, believing they would …
