Wow, so I met Howard Morland today. That was pretty awesome. James Nagelberg wanted me to blog the panel on What the Future Holds for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons. As I have no rational basis on which to make such decisions, I am pleased to do James’ bidding. Sadly, no one mentioned extending START …
Greetings from The Carnegie Conference
by | 2007-06-25 | 5 Comments
Well, I just settled into the balcony, plunked down 12 bucks for internet access and now George is handing out grades based on the Universal Compliance report: Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible. D Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military Currency of Nuclear Weapons. F Obligation Three: Secure all nulcear materials. C- Obligation Four: Stop …
Sayonara, Misty
by | 2007-06-24 | 6 Comments
CQ’s Tim Stark reports that new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has canceled the Misty “stealth” satellite. Patrick Radden Keefe—who wrote the awesome CHATTER—has the details over at Danger Room. The cancellation of the Misty stealthsat—which, let’s face it, wasn’t particularly stealthy—leaves the United States dependent on the Future Imagery Architecture to replace the …
100 Kilos of LEU?
by | 2007-06-22 | 9 Comments
The Iranian Students News Agency (via AFP and Reuters) reported that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iran “currently [has] 3,000 operational centrifuges and [has] delivered more than 100 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to warehouses.” Then the Interior Ministry denied the statement: Public relations of Iran’s Interior Ministry in a fax Friday denied some quotations …
