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 …
Yuan Class Submarine
by | 2005-06-10 | 12 Comments
One of the “failures” Gertz pinned on the IC yesterday was the “deployment of a new [Chinese] attack submarine known as the Yuan class that was missed by U.S. intelligence until photos of the submarine appeared on the Internet.” Gertz first reported on this story in July 2004. Take a moment to read carefully Gertz’s …
