Imagine that you are an astronaut. Sitting (or is it floating?) in the International Space Station (ISS), you would likely be quite aware of a curious link between your escape route home (Earth sweet Earth) and Russia’s possible assistance for the Iran nuclear program. On the whole, it appears that U.S.–Russia nonproliferation programs have not …
Iran to Resume Uranium Enrichment?
by | 2006-01-09 | 2 Comments
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 …
