Avatar photoTunnels at Iran's UCF

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 …

Avatar photoIran & The Bomb 3: Strike options

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 …

Avatar photoIran & the Bomb 2: Iran's Missiles

This is second 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). Once upon a time, Persian scientists spent their considerable talents making the world a better place, inventing useful things like batteries and studying the heavens (left). Lately …

Avatar photoChina Nuclear Weapons Museum

Note: My Iran posts, the second of which will appear later today, are being crossposted at Wampum, home of the Koufax Awards. Next week, Paul and I will be blogging at TPM Cafe. Feel free to submit questions. The Chinese government is opening a nuclear technology museum in Mianyang, home of the China Academy of …