Friend of Wonk Haninah Levine takes a turn as special correspondent, attending the Hudson Institute’s Stopping the Iranian Nuclear Program: Is There an Israeli Option? with Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. It isn’t quite sneaking past the velvet rope into Studio 54 and Yaalon isn’t Andy Warhol, …
India Legislation Text
by | 2006-03-10 | 1 Comment
A copy of the administration’s legislative proposal regarding the US-India nuclear agreement landed on my desk. Basically, the administration wants Congress to change the Atomic Energy Act so the US and India can conclude a nuclear cooperation agreement. Here’s the text: Authority relating to U.S.-India nuclear cooperation. This provision facilitates civil nuclear cooperation with India …
Tender Mercies: ISIS on India
by | 2006-03-10 | 7 Comments
ISIS has released a report, India’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How, arguing that the Indian system of using tenders to acquire export controlled technology raises concerns about proliferation. Since at least 1984, IRE has regularly placed inconspicuous lists of items in Indian newspapers, such as the Times …
Forden and Thomson in JIR
by | 2006-03-10 | 2 Comments
Take a look at the article in Jane’s Intelligence Review (subscription only) by Geoff Forden and John Thomsen expanding on a proposal to develop a multinational consortium to operate a five million SWU-kg a year enrichment facility at Natanz. I wondered about the self-destruct mechanism, the longer article has an explanation. As I suspected, the …
