Avatar photoIran and Google Earth

Geoff Forden at MIT has a sweet tour of Iran’s nuclear facilities for Google Earth—including Arak, where for some strange reason the Bush Administration believes Iran should be able to produce two bombs worth of plutonium a year. (WHAT? You don’t have Google Earth? Click here you Luddite.)

Avatar photoArmenian Chess Houligans

I can’t make this stuff up. Via John Fleck.

Avatar photoBushehr Turbine Hall

BBC has a fav pic that uses for Iran’s nuclear program (right). I noticed it once, didn’t immediately recognize what it was, then forgot to follow up. Someone asked about the image in the comments section and, voila, the Arms Control Wonk community produced an answer: the turbine hall at Bushehr. Other images of the …

Avatar photoSure Is a Nice Package

So, by now, everyone knows that a draft version of the 5+1 offer to Iran is available on the “internets”. I spent most of the day making phone calls and have a pretty decent idea how the document hit the press. The important thing, as I noted yesterday, is that the document is the penultimate …