Pavel Podvig asked a while back about some numbers I used regarding the Ukrainian Kh-55 cruise missiles that ended up in Iran and China. I wrote: … the [missile] smugglers forged documents naming Russia as the missiles’ destination. This is potentially significant because Ukraine agreed in 1999 to send a portion of its Kh-55 missiles …
What Are Five Years Among Friends? Iran Confirms 1998 Pu Experiments
by | 2005-06-16 | No Comments
IAEA Deputy Director for Safeguards Pierre Goldschmidt delivered a confidential report to the IAEA Board of Governors today. Agence France Presse obtained a draft. Goldschmidt updated the Board on a long-running dispute. In 2003, Iran admitted to reprocessing small amounts of plutonium (Pu) between 1988-1993. Based on Pu samples, the IAEA disputed four aspects of …
Charbonneau v. Jahn: Will IAEA Throw Down On Tehran?
by | 2005-06-14 | 3 Comments
Blogging from the Aspen Wye River Conference Center today. As expected Mohamed ElBaradei won approval for an over-precendented third term as IAEA Director-General. The US continues last week’s spin that the failure to oust ElBaradei is a victory, arguing the United States “decided to back ElBaradei in exchange for what it hopes will be a …
A Potemkin Defense: Integrated Flight Tests Hate Our Freedoms
by | 2005-06-12 | 7 Comments
Arms Control Wonk.com has obtained the full text of the Final Report of the Missile Defense Agency’s Independent Review Team (IRT), first reported by Bradley Graham in the Washington Post. Graham, however, missed the scoop—the IRT perversely recommends reducing future flight tests because … this is so priceless … more failures might undermine the system’s …
