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 …
Department of Dead Horse Flogging
by | 2006-05-10 | 2 Comments
Treaties can help establish rules for state behavior which, in turn, can foster some degree of transparency and predictability in international relations. But when people just start making stuff up on the fly, it’s more difficult to predict and understand other states’ intentions. Exhibit A: US-India nuclear deal. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, 14 March: …
