Cross posted at DefenseTech.org So, imagine you are the Rumsfeld Defense Department. You are locked in a “global struggle against violent extremists” “stretching from Indonesia through the Middle East,”. You have 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq as the central front in said struggle. The United States is facing major foreign policy crises in Iran and …
IAEA/2006/53
by | 2006-08-31 | 3 Comments
By popular demand, I am telling everyone that ISIS posted the IAEA report: Lots of things causing heartburn, but everyone is pointing to this paragraph noting some HEU particles on some waste containers: 17. The depleted uranium targets which had been irradiated in the course of the plutonium experiments are stored in containers located at …
Heavy Water Plant Not Nuclear Reactor
by | 2006-08-28 | 27 Comments
I was annoyed that most of the major news outlets incorrectly described Iran’s heavy water plant (which cannot make plutonium) as a nuclear “reactor” (which can). I was thinking that an excellent blog post would point out that a heavy water plant separates separates heavy water from regular water by distillation, electrolysis or various chemical …
TCB on The Fleitz of Fancy
by | 2006-08-27 | 4 Comments
I was contemplating a post on the House Select Committee on Intelligence’s extremely odd report, Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States, which Dafna Linzer reports was written by Fred Fleitz Yes, that Fred Fleitz. Anyway, Gary Sick has distributed a for atttribution commentary to the Gulf/2000 listserv that …
