The chart is by Andreas Persbo, who has another interesting blog post expressing skepticism about the IAEA’s assessment that Iran may install 3,000 centrifuges by August and 8,000 centrifuges by the end of the year. “Although ElBaradei is a very capable guy,” Andreas concludes, “I personally remain sceptical to any claim that the Iranian’s suddenly …
Iran Update and a CW Post
by | 2007-06-16 | No Comments
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 …
