In January, David Albright and Paul Brannan released satellite images demonstrating that Pakistan had resumed construction at a facility near Pakistan’s Chasma reactor. The facility is basically a set of empty buildings, but the story is how they came to be empty: France canceled the proposed sale of a plutonium reprocessing facility to Pakistan, under …
Submarine Dismantlement Trudges On
by | 2007-05-10 | 9 Comments
In mid-April I attended the Nuclear National Dialogue in Moscow, a conference sponsored by Green Cross, Global Green, Rosatom, and others. I have few good details to report, but there was one presentation that may be interesting to folks who follow nuclear submarine dismantlement work in Russia and contributions of the Global Partnership to this …
@#$! Mangoes
by | 2007-05-09 | No Comments
And, oh, by the way, Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.” President Bush, quipping about the trade deal during the March 2006 press conference with Indian PM Singh annoucning additional measures in the “strategic partnership” formed around the civil nuclear partnership. *** Well, that day is here! The …
St. Pete Ponders the CTBT?
by | 2007-05-08 | 6 Comments
I just completed an interview with Bruce Tartar—former Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chair of the AAAS panel of the Reliable Replacement Warhead—for a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. You’ll have to wait for it to come out, but he mentioned something extremely interesting in passing. Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) recently sent a …
