Whether India should place its developmental Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam under IAEA safeguards is shaping up as the most contentious issue regarding the creation of a “separation plan” Inda nuclear facilities. (See: Safeguarding Breeder Reactors, January 24, 2006.) If you are interested in the debate within India, I recommend Siddharth Varadarajan’s somewhat passionate discussion …
Green Salt
by | 2006-02-06 | 2 Comments
Elaine Shannon in Time has more detail on Iran’s covert military effort to produce uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) or “Green Salt. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice helped firm up support for the IAEA vote by having aides brief foreign officials on a trove of documents that, according to U.S. diplomatic sources, expose a clandestine Iranian military …
New Blog of Note
by | 2006-02-06 | No Comments
The Federation of American Scientists has Security Studies Project blog, including contributions by friend of wonk Hans Kristensen. This complements the FAS’ Secrecy News blog by Steve Aftergood.
Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board
by | 2006-02-04 | 4 Comments
Some of us in the arms control community, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, groused about the State Department’s decision to shut down the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board: After the George W. Bush administration came into office, the scientific committee that advised the State Department on technical matters related to arms control was …
