A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped its insistance that the CIRUS reactor be listed as a civilian facility. (For some background, …
Strangers With Candy
by | 2006-01-23 | 4 Comments
I’ve put my first post up in the TPM Cafe, asking whether US & EU diplomacy might usefully exploit divisions within Iranian politics to slow Iran’s nuclear programs. (Update: I’ve added a second post asking what happens if Iran “gets” the bomb.) Here are links to my three part series on the “big questions” about …
Tunnels at Iran's UCF
by | 2006-01-23 | No Comments
Just one addition to Jeffrey’s sweet strike package post. He wrote: Esfahan has another feature, however, that suggests a serious problem. North of the facility, there are a pair of roads that clearly reveal entrances to tunnels within the mountain. (Der Spiegel claimed the tunnels housed a secret Uranium Conversion Facility.) Unlike the underground bunkers …
Iran & The Bomb 3: Strike options
by | 2006-01-23 | 17 Comments
This is third part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). A diverse crowd, including Pat Buchanan’s American Spectator and Sy Hersh at the New Yorker, news outlets have been reporting signs of an imminent …
