Avatar photoParis Negotiations Update 12: Iran Deal Forthcoming

Iran has agreed to suspend enrichment. Tehran still must inform the IAEA. “A deal for a full suspension is done but the IAEA has not received a letter confirming it,” a diplomat told Reuters. “That’s also important that they would have a look at that and see what they signed on to.” No UF4 poduction, …

Avatar photoParis Negotiations Update 11: Weekend Reading on Iran

Well, looks like the IAEA is holding up its report until Iran comes up with an answer. “I know for a fact that the people responsible for the report had all they have to say a few days ago,” a Western diplomat told Reuters. Missing, he said, was a paragraph stating that Iran had agreed …

Avatar photoBAS on Smallpox & Vanunu

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist weblog saves me the trouble of reporting on a recommendation by a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory committee to allow the genetic manipulation of the smallpox virus and the decision by Israel to re-arrest Mordechai Vanunu just seven months after his release from prison.

Avatar photoBulletin of Atomic Scientists Weblog

They’ve got one … More required reading, kids.