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Category Archives: United States
Ten years ago, I was not yet blogging. But I had an opinion about the accusations against Iraq. Bits and pieces of it might still be excavated from dead or dying discussion forums. I’ll expand here. I have to start … Continue reading
This is only a short part of the recording of Mitt Romney’s remarks to a select group of wealthy donors. David Corn gets the central issue right: that it sounds like Romney doesn’t know the difference between a nuclear bomb … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Policy, United States
Tagged Iran, Mitt Romney, United States, US elections
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The CIA has declassified a retrospective report on what went wrong in its assessment of Saddam Hussein’s WMD capabilities. Even now, a great deal of the released document is classified and blanked out. It’s worth looking at to see if … Continue reading
Posted in History, Iran, Israel, Nonproliferation, United States
Tagged CIA, IAEA, intelligence, Iran, Israel, United States
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No, I’m not going to argue that Iran has nuclear weapons. Deterrence goes beyond nuclear weapons, although the discussions of the Cold War seem to have inextricably combined the two words into “nuclear deterrence” and substituted the combined concept for … Continue reading
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Tagged deterrence, IAEA, Iran, Israel, negotiations, Netanyahu, United States
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Also sort of incredible. The anonymous official is most likely (again) Ehud Barak, or possibly someone close to Barak or Binyamin Netanyhu. Here are the ransom demands:
Claims and counterclaims on Iran’s nuclear program continue. Here’s a sampling from Iran this week.
How many US nuclear weapons need new pits every year? 10, 20, 80 pits a year? How big of an investment is necessary to ensure that can produce the minimal amount of pits. These questions are driving the future of … Continue reading
Posted in Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, United States
Tagged CMRR building, Los Alamos
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When the Congressional hearings are held to confirm Alison Macfarlane as Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Yucca Mountain Project for storing spent nuclear fuel is bound to come up. After more than $10 billion was spent on the … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, United States
Tagged Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, waste repositories, Yucca Mountain
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The Santa Fe Institute brought together five people who individually would have had hours of interesting topics to present. Together these individuals had many perspectives and thoughts about the history and implications of the Manhattan Project to give a multi-dimensional … Continue reading
It’s about a two and half hour drive to White Sands’s Stallion Gate from my home in Santa Fe. I wasn’t sure what to expect, so I brought reading material, having heard stories of long waits to get in. I … Continue reading
Posted in History, Nuclear Weapons, United States
Tagged Nuclear tourism, Trinity Site
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