James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle has a detailed update on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program: The first warhead to be upgraded will be the W76, which is deployed on the submarine-based Trident missiles. But whether that missile will still work as designed with a new warhead, without substantial modifications, is yet to be …
It's Not About the Yellowcake
by | 2005-11-26 | 5 Comments
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 …
