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 …
Know Your Enemy–China
by | 2005-05-27 | 1 Comment
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. …
IAEA Receives Pakistani Centrifuge Components, Uranium Samples
by | 2005-05-27 | 2 Comments
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 …
Rogue State HDBTs Revisted
by | 2005-05-26 | 12 Comments
Staring at the curve representing the effectiveness of contact bursts againt hard and deeply buried targets, I noticed the RNEP was designed to defeat tunnels and underground facilities between 100-400 m. FIGURE 4.5 Effectiveness of contact bursts against some deeply buried targets. Note: CEP=circular error probable (i.e. accuracy). Source: Committee on the Effects of Nuclear …
