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 …
Geneve
by | 2006-03-28 | 1 Comment
I am off to Geneva for a couple of days, back Sunday. The blogging might be light between now and then. I’ll be talking about non-state actors and the threat to space assets as part of the UNIDIR conference, Building The Architecture For Sustainable Space Security.
Spying on the Bomb
by | 2006-03-27 | 2 Comments
I bought Jeffrey Richelson’s Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. The book is amazing, particularly the chapter dedicated to the 1979 “flash” over the South Atlantic that may have been a nuclear test. The National Security Archive, where Richelson is a Senior Fellow, has placed online …
