Chris Mooney—writer for SEED magazine and author of the forthcoming The Republican War on Science—has an outstanding article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists about the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)—a nonpartisan technical authority abolished by the GOP-controlled Congress in 1995. OTA’s archive remains an incredibly useful repository of factual information—publications like Technologies Underlying Weapons …
America's Purpose
by | 2005-09-06 | No Comments
Steve Clemons runs a hell of a conference. I’ll be live blogging today from the New America Foundation’s conference, Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose. It’s being webcast, in case you want to drop by, virtually speaking.
Sticks and Stones: China, Iran and the UCF
by | 2005-09-05 | No Comments
In 1998, China backed out of a contract to build a Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) for Iran—a victory for US nonproliferation policy during the Clinton Administration. Iran built the facility using the designs China had already provided. Apparently, there were some hard feelings between Tehran and Beijing. Dr Mohammad Saeidi (Saeedi or Sa’idi, pictured right), …
Gchine (Gehine)
by | 2005-09-04 | 1 Comment
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2005/67) has several paragraphs devoted to Iran’s the Gchine uranium mine and mill, near Bandar Abbas. ElBaradei provided some background on the Gchine mine in 2004: In the south of Iran, near Bandar Abbas, Iran has constructed the Gchine uranium mine and its …
