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 …
More on Iran Timeline
by | 2006-03-25 | 6 Comments
The AP has more about the alleged accelerated pace of Iran’s centrifuge program. Some people at the IAEA are none too amused by recent press reports on the matter: U.N. inspectors should know by next week how far Iran has advanced on the path to nuclear enrichment, diplomats said Saturday — findings that could shape …
