AFP has a remarkable file photograph of Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, listening to Mohamed ElBaradei, at a press conference last month—during the period Washington was attempting to enlist him to challenge ElBaradei for the IAEA’s top job. Downer’s face pretty much tells you what Australian Prime Minister John Howard told reporters today: Downer isn’t …
Paris Negotiations Update 17: Tussels in Brussels
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Iran and the EU-3, meeting in Brussels, agreed to a new round of negotiations, Reuters reports. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a statement by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. “We are now able to move forward to a next phase,” Straw said, leading to “a longer-term arrangement to provide objective guarantees that Iran’s …
Postol Op-Ed in the Boston Globe
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Ted Postol has an op-ed in the Boston Globe regarding MIT’s announcement “that it could not investigate credible evidence of possible scientific fraud in fundamental National Missile Defense research being done at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.”
Latent Deterrents in Iran and North Korea
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A couple of days ago, David Sanger and Bill Broad reported that IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei is “now certain that the nuclear material his agency once monitored there has been converted into fuel for four to six nuclear bombs.” Yet what ElBaradei actually said was “I’m sure they have reprocessed it all”—something he was able …
