Pavel Podvig has a good column over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The article, “Behind Russia and Iran’s Nuclear Reactor Dispute” addresses changes in Russia’s position towards Iran, which I blogged about last week, and argues that Russia should in fact complete Bushehr construction and ship fuel. Last week, Russia reportedly threatened to …
NIE on Iran's WMD Programs
by | 2007-03-27 | 8 Comments
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: …
