Fredrik Dahl of Reuters reports that the IAEA has satellite images, including one dated May 25, that show “two side buildings had been dismantled and other possible clean-up work” described as “ground-scraping activities” at Parchin. (The sourcing is “diplomats who attended a closed-door briefing by U.N. nuclear agency officials.”) We don’t have the images (yet) [...]
By now everyone has seen the latest IAEA Iran report, GOV/2012/23. Among other bits that have drawn attention is paragraph 28, concerning swipe samples taken at the subterranean enrichment facility outside of Qom in mid-February. These samples “showed the presence of particles with enrichment levels of up to 27% U-235,” more than the level that’s [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- Memorial Day, USA ] . 2. The garden: . The Chelsea Flower Show is one of the minor Great British Occasions — a stroll in the park with some of the Kingdom’s finest horticulturalists displaying their best, and not usually the place you’d go to be reminded of war, though [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- Memorial Day, USA ] . 1. The tipi: . Inside the night, Afghanistan; in Arghandab, Afghanistan, a small American army base; inside the base beside the chapel a tipi; within the tipi photos of the fallen, cigarettes, an open bible, strong bonds, strong memories. . . If you look closely, [...]
Rei Tang, who I had the pleasure of meeting and breaking bread with at the last Boyd & Beyond Conference, is guest-posting at Rethinking Security on a topic dear to my heart, presidential national security decision making. Mr. Tang nailed it here and I give his post a very strong endorsement as a “must-read”: Guest [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- cross posted from Sembl -- creativity as the blending of ideas ] . Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner‘s The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities gives us a fascinating look at the way the human mind weaves a world out of seemingly disparate elements — in [...]
Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of [...]
Some commentators are annoyed that I haven’t written much about Iran. In my defense, I now direct a nonproliferation program focused on East Asia. Still, they have a point. This post is a small step in that direction. I wanted to write about the “detonation tank” reportedly at Parchin in Iran, where Iran may [...]
: : , skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Each U.S . Trident submarine can destroy 100 cities and produce the global famine described in the . study from an article , A nuclear clash could starve the world at CNN.com , April 11, 2012 Friday , May 18, 2012 Message from Youth on Nukes : Remember your humanity , and forget the rest YOUTH SPEECH during the Civil society presentations to the First Preparatory Committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference May 2, 2012, Vienna , Austria Speech written by Mirko Montuori , Abolition 2000 Leonardo Scuto , Atlantic Treaty Association Christian N . Ciobanu , Raphael Zaffran , and Charlie Sell , Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Martin Hinrichs ,
Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog HASC vs . HAC on Nukes and Missile Defense Kingston Reif May 17, 2012 0 We've made a point of highlighting the different funding decisions made by the House Armed Services Committee HASC and GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee HAC regarding the National Nuclear Security Administration's NNSA weapons activities account , particularly the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility CMRR-NF Whereas HASC increased funding for these programs , the appropriations committee funded them at the administration's request including no funding for the CMRR-NF pursuant to the administration's decision to delay the: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Each U.S . Trident submarine can destroy 100 cities and produce the global famine described in the . study from an article , A nuclear clash could starve the world at CNN.com , April 11, 2012 Friday , May 11, 2012 One half of 1 a sobering perspective Today the Preparatory Committee PrepCom for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons NPT wraps up the first of three meetings leading up to the 2015 NPT Conference . nbsp It is an appopriate time for a serious reminder that , even with the overarching yet important emphasis of many of the nuclear powers on terrorists getting their hands on