Stephen Rademaker (my buddy) has introduced a draft fissile material cut-off treaty at the Conference on Disarmament. Shorter Rademaker: Article 1. States Party undertake to kiss my bony ass. Sadly, this is only vaguely hyperbole. The treaty, as it were, seems intended to buy the Administration some credibility with Congress on the US-India deal while …
de Klerk and Nuclear Weapons
by | 2006-05-16 | 12 Comments
Newsweek published an interview the other day with former South African president F.W. de Klerk. He discussed several topics, including South Africa’s past nuclear weapons program. Asked about the country’s decision to give up its weapons, he said: I wasn’t part of the inner circle that developed [the program]. It was not my decision to …
Iranian Centrifuge Developments
by | 2006-05-12 | 21 Comments
Well, some big developments today. Louis Charbonneau at Reuters reports that IAEA samples of equipment from Lavizan-Shian suggest the presence of highly enriched uranium: “Preliminary analysis by the IAEA showed traces of highly enriched uranium in the (pump) samples,” a Western diplomat accredited to the IAEA told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The former physics …
