Avatar photoIran 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 …

Avatar photoVanunu 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? …

Avatar photoIran 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 …

Avatar photoGeneve

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.