My own thoughts about Iran’s centrifuge program are here. And because I’m not all about nukes, there’s a post about chemical weapons here, complete with a Slayer video.
NNSA's Harvey At New America
by | 2007-06-15 | 2 Comments
Yesterday, I hosted John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, here at New America. John was a good sport—what we planned to be a 25 person brown bag lunch turned into a 75 person event that will air on CSPAN. (You can listen to the audio. I will post when CSPAN announces when they …
18 Cascades for Iran by August?
by | 2007-06-14 | 3 Comments
Wow. IAEA DG ElBaradei told reporters today that the IAEA assesses that “by end of July, [Iran] might have 18 cascades running.” [2:38, it’s an mp3 file.] That’s 2,952 centrifuges and it would surprise me. No one else seems to have caught it. (A “diplomatic source in Vienna close to the IAEA” recently told Paul …
From Putin, An Offer You Can't Refuse
by | 2007-06-14 | 3 Comments
As we all know, Russia and the U.S. have been in a tiff over the U.S. proposal to put missile defense installations in Europe (Ten interceptors in Poland and an x-band radar in the Czech Republic.) Ok, more than a tiff. Putin said Russia can’t accept such things so close to its borders. Bush said …
