Avatar photoAlmost New Illicit Trafficking Database

I like the tone of the first few paragraphs of this Times online article, Seizures of radioactive materials fuel ‘dirty bomb’ fears It’s the terrorists are coming to kill us all with a dirty bomb so buy our paper while you still have eyes! tone. SEIZURES of smuggled radioactive material capable of making a terrorist …

Avatar photoUNSC PRST on DPRK

The UN has the full text, also replicated below. “The Security Council expresses its deep concern over the statement of 3 October 2006 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), in which it stated that the DPRK would conduct a nuclear test in the future. “The Security Council …

Avatar photoNorth Korean Nuclear "Demonstration"

Well it took two months—I complained in August—but the New York Times finally released the lat/long for the P’unggye-yok test site. Google views of the tunneling area, near 41.279 degrees north latitude and 129.087 east longitude, show a set of industrial buildings and what appears to be a mine entrance. Of course that’s after I’d …

Avatar photoIran, Enrichment, Etc. Etc.

Two Words: ROAD TRIP The head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (Esfandiar Rahim-Masha’i) has said: Foreign tourists can visit Iran’s nuclear centers. In order to learn more about this report, we’ve telephoned the deputy head of the Tourism Organization. Hello, Mr Malekzadeh. Please go ahead. (Mohammad Sharif Malekzadeh) In the discussion that …