Tag Archives: IAEA

What Semipalatinsk Tells Us About Parchin

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Cheryl

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 →

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Stupid Inspection Games

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Cheryl

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 →

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Iran Already Has a Deterrent

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Cheryl

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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Document Uploads: Iran’s Position Paper and Slides

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Cheryl

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 →

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What Might the Iranians Have Tested at Parchin?

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Cheryl

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 →

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The IAEA and the Iran Negotiations

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Cheryl

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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