The editors of Foreign Policy magazine “look back at at some of the persons, places and things that mattered most … and a few that never lived up to their billing.” The Number One Disappointment of the last 35 years? The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was supposed to keep the world’s nuclear …
His Own Private Idaho
by | 2005-08-28 | 3 Comments
I was really puzzled by this remark in Dafna Linzer’s WaPo story linking enriched uranium on Iranian centrifuges to contaminated Pakistani equipment, not a clandestine nuclear weapons program: “The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions,” said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of …
Musharraf On Khan & North Korea
by | 2005-08-26 | No Comments
Kyodo interviewed Pakistani CEO Perverz Musharraf, who confirmed that AQ Khan supplied North Korea with centrifuges and components. Musharraf also allowed the Khan may have provided uranium hexafluoride: Asked to comment on reports that Pakistan has told Japanese government officials that Khan gave about 20 centrifuges to North Korea, Musharraf said, “Yes, he passed centrifuges—parts …
IAEA Clears Iran on HEU
by | 2005-08-24 | No Comments
Dafna Linzer reports the IAEA empaneled an international group of scientists to confirm that traces of highly enriched uranium in Iran originated with contaminated centrifuge components obtained through the AQ Khan network: Scientists from the United States, France, Japan, Britain and Russia met in secret during the past nine months to pore over data collected …
