The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a very short statement confirming that the North Korean test was nuclear. Thom Shanker and David Sanger’s article in the New York Times says that US intelligence has concluded that the test was a plutonium device, not uranium. Sig Hecker knows a thing or two about …
Nuclear Volleyball
by | 2006-10-13 | 9 Comments
Normally I don’t bother with Gertz, but this is priceless: Nuclear volleyball Intelligence photographs of North Korea’s nuclear test site showed technicians playing volleyball this week near the tunnel where a nuclear device was unsuccessfully set off on Sunday. The facility where the test took place was identified by U.S. officials as a North Korean …
Russian interests in the 123 Agreement
by | 2006-10-13 | 3 Comments
The Carnegie Moscow Center held a discussion yesterday on the 123 Agreement, which would allow for nuclear cooperation between Russia and the US. The presentation was given by Robert Einhorn of CSIS, and there will be a summary on the Carnegie site shortly, but I thought people here might be interested in a point about …
DPRK Test: What About that Radionuclide Data?
by | 2006-10-12 | 10 Comments
NHK and Yonhap have both reported on what Japan and South Korea have found in the atmosphere after the DPRK’s Monday test: bagel. According to NHK: Japan’s 47 prefectures say no radioactive substances have been detected at any measuring points in a survey conducted one day after North Korea’s claimed nuclear test. The prefectures took …
