Avatar photoDimona Revealed

Well, first Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission opened a website. Now, Israel’s censors have permitted Channel 10 to air a 14-minute video depicting wide-angle shots of Dimona (like the photograph at right), “including buses bringing staff to the site, well-ordered lines waiting to use a cash machine and a leisurely soccer game nearby.” Get the feeling …

Avatar photoRating ElBaradei

The United States is still trying out oust IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei. Bush’s Candidate to Replace ElBaradei? “They’ve already started lobbying in the capitals” for a no confidence vote, one diplomat told AP on condition of anonymity. “Whether or not they call for a vote depends on the support they will get.” Diplomats accredited to …

Avatar photoFun with Torture

This is a cartoon (right) from a briefing by the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC) at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. It was, I believe, reproduced in a classified annex to the Taguba report. This isn’t really related to arms control, but I am finding it hard to blog about anything else really. I am …

Avatar photoBolton to Replace Libby?

Yeah, you read that correctly. This is my least favorite Washington rumor right now. The Nelson Report cannot confirm it—or the nightmare scenario of Bolton as Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Libby as DepSecDef and Wolfowitz as UN Ambassador.