David Sanger in the New York Times reports “a previously undisclosed incident in June” involving trade between Iran and North Korea: … American satellites tracked an Iranian cargo plane landing in North Korea. The two countries have a history of missile trade – Iran’s Shahab missile is a derivative of a North Korean design – …
PLA Procurement Website
by | 2005-10-23 | 1 Comment
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched a procurement website to promote “integrity, fairness and openness” in military procurement. China Daily quotes a PAP officer saying the website will reduce corruption: Ma Qiang, from the Gansu Division of the Chinese People’s Armed Police Force, said on Friday that the general public can now have easier …
URRW Update
by | 2005-10-22 | No Comments
John Fleck, reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, notes that NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks clammed up when asked about the using uranium for the reliable replacement warhead: My question to Brooks: Is uranium being considered? I got the “is it classified?” pause, then “I don’t think we’re thinking of fundamental changes in the way we’ve looked …
Chinese mixer-settlers at UCF
by | 2005-10-20 | 2 Comments
A few weeks ago, I noticed a slight inconsistency in a couple of otherwise outstanding articles by Mark Hibbs regarding Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) The question concerned the method of extracting impurities from uranium—impurities that might crash Iran’s centrifuge cascades. The Chinese design called for mixed settlers (like the Iraqi models at left), but …
