Paul over at TotalWonkerr further doubts that the Iranians have installed 3,000 centrifuges, citing comments by ElBaradei and Aqazadeh: IAEA DG ElBaradei told Reuters that Iran “is still going ahead … with the goal of having 54,000 centrifuges. Now it is still at the hundreds stage…” AEOI’s Aqazadeh says that he “didn’t give a number …
Are We Prepared for Nuclear Attack?
by | 2007-04-12 | No Comments
In a well-timed follow-up to yesterday’s post, Greg Gordon with McClatchy pens an expose on the lack of preparedness in the United States in the event of a terrorist detonation of a nuclear device: “The United States is unprepared to mitigate the consequences of a nuclear attack,” Pentagon analyst John Brinkerhoff concluded in a July …
Dick & Matt on the P(Terror Farm)
by | 2007-04-11 | 10 Comments
Speaking of that ranch in Montana … Dick Garwin tells Congress that, in his formidable opinion, the chance of a successful terrorist use of a nuclear weapon in the United States or Europe is twenty percent per year: GARWIN: What we are missing is really the response to a terrorist nuclear explosion in a Western …
How Many Centrifuges?
by | 2007-04-10 | 14 Comments
Paul at Total Wonkerr adds some value to my post, including reminding readers of a late March story from AFP’s Michael Adler stating that a … … diplomat said Iran had installed six cascades of 164 centrifuges each at Natanz and was test-running four of the cascades. That would be 1,640 984 centrifuges. I propose …
