Avatar photoSchulte to IAEA

The White House has nominated Gregory L. Schulte to be Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador. The United States has been without an Ambassador to the IAEA since Ken Brill left in July 2004. Bush withdrew the nomination of James Cunningham under pressure …

Avatar photoKhan Network Remained Active in 2004

The AQ Khan network attempted to purchase 60 metric tons of Russian aluminum tubes through a Swiss front company in March 2004, according to the Swiss Internal Security Report released by the Swiss Federal Police Office: In 2004 the network specialised in nuclear technology belonging to the “father“ of the Pakistani atomic bomb, Dr. Adbul …

Avatar photoKnow Your Enemy–China

The cover of a recent RAND report (right) depicts the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) five-star logo stretching across a Eurasian landmass that has been colored black in a fashion strangely reminiscent of propaganda films. A professor of mine from Augusta College, David Snowball, notes: The spreading stain is a fairly common motif in propaganda films. …

Avatar photoIAEA Receives Pakistani Centrifuge Components, Uranium Samples

IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky confirms to Doug Frantz of the Los Angeles Times that Pakistan has provided centrifuge components and uranium samples to the IAEA Centrifuge components and uranium samples were flown from Pakistan to Vienna and handed over to the IAEA at its main laboratory, where they will be compared with suspicious traces of …