Brian Ross at ABC News reports that “Iran has more than tripled its ability to produce enriched uranium in the last three months, adding some 1,000 centrifuges …” and adds that “Iran could have enough material for a nuclear bomb by 2009.” Hang on there. The US intelligence community, on the other hand, is sticking …
TotalWonkerr v. Golfarb
by | 2007-04-06 | No Comments
Paul continues his quixotic battle to introduce Michael Goldfarb at The Weekly Standard to methodological rigor. Shorter Paul: Absence of evidence is absence of evidence.
New GAO Report on MPC&A
by | 2007-04-04 | 1 Comment
GAO has released a new report on MPC&A (Materials Protection Control and Accounting). It is positive for the most part, praising DOE and DOD cooperation on work at nuclear warhead sites in Russia, which has improved since GAO’s 2003 assessment. It is a very clearly written report, compared to others I’ve read on the Russia …
Wassenaar Arrangement: Hot or Not?
by | 2007-04-04 | 2 Comments
Samuel Evans says no in perhaps the most discouraging title ever for a professional talk: “Wassenaar Arrangement: Unsexiest of International Regimes.” I can’t make this stuff up. Evans, a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown’s Center for Peace and Security Studies and a doctoral candidate at Oxford says that Wassenaar isn’t “sexy” despite being a rather, um, …
