Bill Gertz reported that the United States, under the Iran Proliferation Act of 2000, will impose sanctions on nine entities—one Austrian, six Chinese and two Indian firms. The two Indian firms are Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd and Sandhya Organics Ltd. The Indian government cried foul. External Affairs Ministry Spokesman Navtej Sarna denied the sale violated …
Leap Year Will Not Cause Nuclear War
by | 2005-12-29 | 2 Comments
Phew! From the “good to know” category. The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces assure us that the extra second being added to 2005 (leap second) is no problem: 28/12/2005 13:20 MOSOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – The extra second being added to 2005 to make up for the slowing down of the Earth’s rotation, will not …
RNEP Mopping Up
by | 2005-12-28 | No Comments
The Defense Appropriations Conference report is out. As expected, the Appropriations Conference gave $4.0 M to PE 0604327F Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) Program for a conventional penetrator sled test as a sort of alternative to the terminated Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). The Conference Report did not address the crucial question …
KRL Junk Orders
by | 2005-12-27 | 3 Comments
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the Urenco countries—Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.—confirmed that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had been …
