I’ve been a little lazy about this whole Divine Strake business. Fortunately, several of my colleagues—John Pike, Andy Lichterman, Hans Kristensen,, John Fleck and Bill Arkin—have been all over the story. Long story, short (via Hans): DOE is making a gi-normous (about 0.6 kt) conventional explosion that is probably a simulation of a B 61 …
Iran Miscellany
by | 2006-04-03 | 4 Comments
1. Bernard Gwertzman recently conducted an interview with Flynt Leverett (former NSC, now Brookings) containing another description of Iran’s efforts to engage the United States. Leverett has previously discussed this particular Iran offer. Here he says: In the spring of 2003 we received through this Swiss channel a one-page document, which basically laid out an …
Vanunu on Israeli Nuclear Arsenal
by | 2006-04-03 | 3 Comments
Jeffrey’s post about the National Security Archives’ recently-released documents related to the South African and French nuclear arsenals reminded me that Mordechai Vanunu issued his estimate of the Israeli nuclear weapons arsenal this past December. Vanunu, in a 21 December interview with Voyenny Parad, said: Question: Do you know how many nuclear bombs Israel has? …
Iran FM: Regional Fuel Cycle = Rad
by | 2006-04-03 | No Comments
Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki told the Conference on Disarmament last Thursday that Iran is open to a regional fuel cycle consortium: In our view one possibility to resolve the issue could be establishment of regional consortiums on fuel cycle development with the participation of regional countries which have already developed fuel cycle …
