IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt’s Statement to the Board of Governors confirms an account, which first appeared in The Washington Post, that the A.Q. Khan network offered Iran assistance with its centrifuge program in 1987. Goldschmidt told the Board of Governors: During a meeting on 12 January 2005 in Tehran, Iran showed the Agency …
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Design That Ended Up in Libya
by | 2005-03-02 | No Comments
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein have an article, Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, in The Washington Quarterly that has previously upublished information about the Chinese nuclear weapons design provided to Libya by the Khan network: The documents appear to have been information that Pakistan had received in China in the early …
Patriot Performance in Iraq
by | 2005-03-01 | No Comments
Inside Defense has the full text of the Defense Science Board’s Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Patriot System Performance (Not yet available from the DSB website). The report focuses on three fratricide incidents—including the death of Lieutenant Nathan White of Abilene, Texas, which was the subject of some investigative reporting (also) …
Dennis Papadopoulos
by | 2005-02-28 | No Comments
For people with virtually no sense of fashion when it comes to clothing, Washington “defense intellectuals” are suprisingly adept at picking up on the latest fashions when it comes to ideas. One of the biggest intellectual fads in recent years has been the threat to satellites from a high altitude nuclear detonation (HAND). And no …
