That’s what Jacqueline Shire is reporting over at ABCNews.com: Sources with knowledge of Iran’s nuclear program tell ABC News that a senior Iranian official notified the IAEA verbally over the weekend of its intention to introduce uranium hexafluoride gas, or UF6, into centrifuges at a facility in Natanz, 150 miles south of Tehran. Introducing UF6 …
Meet Jane Vaynman
by | 2006-01-09 | No Comments
I am going to be spending the next week in Cambridge MA and Colorado Springs, CO. That is going to make blogging hard, so I’ve asked the lovely and talented Jane Vaynman, of the Carnegie Endowment, to blog in my absence. Jane is a Stanford grad, Russian speaker and the social impressario of the under-30 …
No Sled Test At Sandia
by | 2006-01-06 | No Comments
Sandia officials tell John Fleck that the R NEP sled test will not be conducted at Sandia: That has prompted speculation that the Sandia test would go forward. Jeffrey Lewis … discussed the issue most recently last week. If the test is really going to go forward, that’s a story, so I called up the …
Curious Sanctions
by | 2006-01-05 | No Comments
I’ve written a short analysis, Curious Sanctions, for the Carnegie Endowment’s Proliferation News about the US sanctions imposed on two Indian chemical companies. By its own count, the Bush Administration has imposed sanctions at a significantly greater rate than the Clinton Administration. Most recently, the United States sanctioned two Indian chemical companies, along with four …
