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
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
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 …
Podvig and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces
Pavel Podvig, author of the definitive Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (makes a nice stocking stuffer), has a website and episodic blog entitled—what else—Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. The goal of his Russian Nuclear Forces Project is to provide Russian citizens and policy makers with information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific …
