Jofi Joseph says something simple, sensible and overdue: The Bush administration’s most blatant misrepresentation of intelligence was its claim that Iraq’s attempts at purchasing thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes was part of an effort to build nuclear centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium for weapons. In the fall of 2002, the aluminum tube claim was …
Lewis on MSNBC
by | 2005-11-25 | 7 Comments
I’ll be on MSNBC Live tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:45 a.m. to talk about Iran. Any suggestions?
Whoops.
by | 2005-11-25 | 2 Comments
A couple of days ago, IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei revealed that the AQ Khan network provided Iran with a number of documents in 1987, including one “related to the … casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal into hemispherical forms.” (Like the critical assembly below.) Michael Adler at AFP passes along the …
Beaten With A POGO Stick
by | 2005-11-22 | 3 Comments
I was reading Bill Gertz’s article on the EMP threat, thinking “I wish someone else would point out that the article is a steaming pile of horseapples.” Nick Schwellenbach from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has done just that, drawing on his excellent article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists entitled EMPty Threat and …
