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Category Archives: Nonproliferation
North Korea tested another nuclear device on February 12. One of the questions about that test was whether the fissionable material used was enriched uranium or plutonium. That question could only be answered by outsiders if samples of the xenon … Continue reading
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To supplement the series on the MOX plant, here is a PowerPoint presentation from Shaw-AREVA . This is also available from the South Carolina Energy Office. Posts in the Nuclear Diner series: Where Do Nuclear Weapons Go To Die? Canning … Continue reading
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Tagged MOX, United States
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The standoff continues between Iran and the IAEA about an inspection of the Parchin facility that is suspected of holding a containment tank for explosives tests related to nuclear weapons development. Robert Kelley has renewed his objection that such a … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union
Tagged IAEA, Iran, Parchin, Semipalatinsk
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Jeffrey Lewis has stirred up the question of whether apparatus photographed in Burma/Myanmar is useful for uranium and rare earth chemistry. I’ve provided a quick overview based on my experience. But there’s another source of information on uses of equipment … Continue reading
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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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I’ve been thinking that it might be a good idea to upload Iran’s position paper, which I’ve been using from a dropbox address, although it is available elsewhere. Now Scott Peterson makes the PowerPoint slides from Iran’s presentation available at … Continue reading
The Parchin story continues to complicate. Gareth Porter would like to believe that there is no explosives testing chamber at all, and indeed we have no photographic proof that one is there. This somewhat undermines Porter’s earlier story, however, of … Continue reading
Kenneth Waltz argues that an Iranian nuclear weapon is likely to stabilize the Middle East as a counterbalance to Israeli nuclear power. His Foreign Affairs article is behind a paywall, but USA Today published a summary. Waltz sees the world … Continue reading
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
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Two publications from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are useful in understanding the role of the IAEA in the Iranian nuclear issue. IAEA Critical for Making Diplomacy with Iran Work, by Mark Hibbs, Ariel Levite, and Pierre Goldschmidt The … Continue reading
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