Arms Control Wonk

Another colleague who saw the same unclassified-but-not-publicly-available Livermore briefing on Bushehr “came away with the same sense – the reactor, in large part because of its mixed design heritage is a piece of garbage. It is, of course, true that Pu will be produced as is the nature of fissioning uranium. That said, the reactor …

Michael Roston notes that, during his time at RANSAC, he sat in on a briefing from someone from Livermore who made the case that the Bushehr is not suitable for a nuclear weapons program. That technical fact leads to a political conclusion: The natural bargain is to assist Iran in completing Bushehr in exchange for …

I hear the Secretary of Energy has halted all work at the national laboratories on Iran. Why? There is no public explanation, but speculation centers on the role of DOE analysts in making the Administration look liars on the issue of those infamous Iraqi aluminum tubes At the time, the Bush Administration appears to have …