Remember a couple of weeks ago when Iran nearly scuppered its accord with the EU-3 over its continued production of uranium tetraflouride (UF-4), which may have been considered “feed material” for highly enriched uranium? (No? Read my post dated 10 November 2004) Anyway, after some wrangling the Europeans got “basically … a full suspension,” a …
Paris Negotiations Update 18: UF4 Production to continue until February
by | 2004-12-21 | No Comments
More on that Failed Missile Defense Test
by | 2004-12-21 | No Comments
I somehow missed the Post’s Al Kamen kicking Rick Lehner and MDA in the jimmy on Monday: Opponents of the Bush administration’s Star Wars missile defense system jumped all over Wednesday’s failed launch, saying the setback showed the administration was rushing to deploy the system without adequate testing. Au contraire, said a spokesman for the …
Abraham on U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation
by | 2004-12-20 | No Comments
“Can I get some more of those little boiled peanuts?” Speaking to Tsinghua University on December 17, outgoing Secretary of Energy Spencer Araham said … well, let’s dwell on what he didn’t say. He didn’t say that the US-Chinese Laboratory-to-Laboratory Technical Exchange Program, suspended in the wake of the Cox Report, was “both beneficial and …
Through the Looking Glass 1: ABM Treaty
by | 2004-12-19 | No Comments
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more or less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking …
