I managed to miss that the Bush Administration withdrew James Cunningham’s nomination as Ambassador to the IAEA on October 8. At least until Richard Boucher admitted yesterday that he had no idea who was representing the United States in Vienna: QUESTION: Related to [Iran-EU3 negotiations], what’s the status of your representation at the IAEA now …
Paris Negotiations Update 6: Majlis on Enrichment
by | 2004-11-04 | No Comments
Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network, via FBIS, has a discussion with a pair of parliamentarians of the Majlis bill obligating the Iranian governrment to resume uranium enrichment. The guests agree that the bill obligates Iran to resume enrichment, but the Iranian legislative process is not terribly straightforward and will require another vote …
Paris Negotiations Update 5: Iran-EU Agreement Nears; Bush May Ignore
by | 2004-11-03 | No Comments
Mohamed “ElBaradei plans to say in his November report to the IAEA that the agency has so far found no evidence of diversion” to a nuclear weapons program, a diplomat has told Reuters. ElBaradei “will balance that by saying that Iran’s fuel cycle activities would appear to be out of proportion with the other parts …
Ted Taylor, 1929-2004
by | 2004-11-03 | No Comments
Theodore “Ted” Taylor, nuclear weaponeer and disarmament advocate, died on October 28. Dr. Taylor worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1948 to 1956, designing a series of very large, pure fission bombs intended as a back-up in the event the the “Super” didn’t work out. The fission bombs were tested as “Operation Ivy,” …
