Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department officials to describe what North Korea was supposed to do to its 25 MWth reactor …
Size Matters
by | 2007-03-04 | 6 Comments
I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is trying to put the toothpaste back in the …
The Incredible Shrinking HEU Program
by | 2007-03-02 | 16 Comments
So, Joe DeTrani and Chris Hill admit that the intel on North Korea’s enrichment program is sketchy and all hell breaks loose … (Read the full text of their testimonies). Giacomo, Sanger and Broad, Kessler, and Landay all have stories. Cue the outraged editorials by the Washington Post and New York Times lamenting that the …
DOE Announcement on RRW Today
by | 2007-03-02 | 2 Comments
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Department of Energy plans to announce the reliable replacement warhead contract today: The Energy Department will announce today a contract to develop the nation’s first new hydrogen bomb in two decades, involving a collaboration between three national weapons laboratories, The Times has learned. The new bomb will include …
