I reviewed Shahram Chubin’s Iran’s Nuclear Intentions for the journal Middle East Policy. In that review, I discussed the provenance of the 2005 NIE on Iran’s WMD programs. Chubin asserts that members of the US intelligence community produced a “tainted” National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program that underestimated how close Iran was to building …
Movement at the CD?
by | 2007-03-26 | No Comments
José Maria Sert’s 1934 mural depicting the progress of humankind toward peace. Wow, the Conference on Disarmament may be moving toward a program of work. The good folks at Reaching Critical Will report that the CD could take a decision as early as Tuesday to begin negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty: On behalf …
More Tarhuna CW Facility
by | 2007-03-26 | No Comments
Adding to my post on Tarhuna from yesterday (Tarhuna CW Facility, March 25, 2007), Paul observes that the unclassified Final Report of the The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction makes a special effort to point out the limits of overhead imagery in identifying chemical weapons facilities: …
Tarhuna CW Facility
by | 2007-03-25 | 13 Comments
Do you remember Libya’s alleged second chemical weapons facility near Tarhuna? In February 1996, then-DCI John Deutch accused Libya of “building the world’s largest underground chemical weapons plant” near Tarhuna. A few months later, a State Department spokesperson explained: Libya is constructing what would be the world’s largest underground chemical plants near a place called …
