Avatar photoReliable Replacement Warhead Redux

Haninah Levine has the second of what will be four articles at DefenseTech.org on the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. In these cases, a dilemma arises: should the nuclear production complex go to extreme lengths to recreate the processes needed to remanufacture [nuclear weapons] components exactly according to the original specifications? Or should they look for …

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Avatar photoKhan Network: Steve Coll in New Yorker

As far as I can tell, the New Yorker hasn’t posted Steve Coll’s piece on the Khan network yet, but they have a Q&A transcript on their website that’s worth checking out. This excerpt about the time frame for an Iranian nuclear weapon is interesting: Q: The question of how fast can’t be answered definitively, …

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Here’s a copy of UNSC resolution 1696. Qatar didn’t vote for it…everyone else did. Here are the three most important paragraphs: “7. Requests by 31 August a report from the Director General of the IAEA primarily on whether Iran has established full and sustained suspension of all activities mentioned in this resolution, as well as …