The 2004 Annual Report to Congress on the Safety and Security of Russian Nuclear Facilities and Military Forces is now available on the NIC website.
Brooks on RNEP
by | 2005-03-04 | 1 Comment
Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration Linton Brooks testified yesterday on Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). Brooks admitted RNEP will produce a huge amount of fallout: TAUSCHER: “Is there any way an RNEP of any size that we would drop will not produce a huge amount of radioactive debris?” BROOKS: No, there’s not. … …
1987 Meeting Between Iran and AQ Khan Network
by | 2005-03-02 | No Comments
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 …
