Iran’s aluminum tubes

16Jan09

  Today’s Wall Street Journal leads with a “scoop” concerning Iranian efforts to acquire high-tech components for “nuclear missiles.”  While I am in no position to contest the factual elements of the story, it is interesting to observe the spin the conservative paper puts on these details.  This starts with the very first paragraph:
 
U.S. security and law-enforcement [...]

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Russia’s view

18Dec08

Of all of the existing nuclear states, Russia has the most unfettered access to Iran based upon its continuing assistance in building Iran’s nuclear power plants, and filling the vacuum left by the decision by the German company Siemens years ago to pull the rug out from its nuclear technology contracts.   Russian commentary on Iran’s [...]

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Missile envy

16Sep08

Hot off the press: at today’s meeting of the 35-member board for the IAEA, Iran was confronted with documents and photographs that the US claimed showed that Iran tried to modify the Shahab-3 intermediate-range ballistic missile to carry a nuclear payload.  The Iranian delegation countered that the materials were fabricated.
The “evidence” pertained to alleged work which preceded [...]

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Why nukes are bad

09Jun08

 Some people seem to have forgotten some basic facts about about the Bomb.  The Bomb, Demetri.  You know, the H bomb. 
I skim my e-mail lists from time to time, and occasionally there are some remarks by progressives that surprise even me.  Take this one:
For example, all nations would have relationships similar to those among the [...]

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