Apologies for the light blogging. Things are settling down here in Cambridge, so I should be back to a regular schedule. Elaine Shannon, writing in Time, answers another question that I had about the data on that purloined Iranian laptop, specifically about the size of the notional nuclear device in the plans for the Shahab …
Slammin'
by | 2006-03-15 | 5 Comments
You know what would be awesome? If we could slam a B61 nuclear bomb into the ground. You know, real hard … Yeah, that would be awesome. See page 3 for a description and picture.
UNSC Iran Statement Draft
by | 2006-03-15 | No Comments
FT has excerpts. So does Reuters. According to that news agency, this is the part that the P5 are arguing about: “Requests that the director general of the IAEA reports to the Security Council in [14] days on Iranian compliance with the requirements set out by the IAEA board, and agrees to keep this issue …
What Does Disarmament Look Like Again?
by | 2006-03-15 | 1 Comment
The world knows what successful cooperative disarmament looks like. When a country decides to disarm, and to provide to the world verifiable evidence that it has disarmed, there are three common elements to its behavior: The decision to disarm is made at the highest political level; The regime puts in place national initiatives to dismantle …
