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More Secret Iranian Nuclear Sites?

By | 11.17.09 | 8:48 am

The International Atomic Energy Agency, after inspecting the recently disclosed nuclear facility at Qom, suspects there may be more:

International inspectors who gained access to Iran’s newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report on Monday that the country was concealing other atomic facilities. [...]

Qom: First Look

By | 11.05.09 | 1:09 pm

So, what was at Iran’s nuclear facility at Qom, anyway?

U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday.

Iran Takes the Nuke Deal?

By | 10.21.09 | 10:06 am

Breaking news from The Associated Press: the Iranians may in fact accept a crucial nuclear deal:

Iranian negotiators on Wednesday expressed support for a deal that — if accepted by their leaders — would delay Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to

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Iran: Vienna Sausage

By | 10.19.09 | 10:32 am

Today is the day: about an hour ago, talks got underway in Vienna between Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.S., Russia and France to see if an initial deal last month will indeed result in sending 75 percent of Iran’s low-enriched-uranium to Russia for reprocessing into fuel, More…

How Do We Know There Are Only 3000 Centrifuges At Qom?

By | 09.29.09 | 2:14 pm

More from the “size and configuration” files regarding Iran’s heretofore-concealed nuclear facility at Qom. You’ll recall on Friday the Obama administration stated in a background briefing for reporters that it believed Qom was “designed to hold about 3,000 centrifuge machines.” That was a key piece of evidence for the More…

Has Iran Actually Violated Any Specific International Obligations Here?

By | 09.25.09 | 12:40 pm

[Updated 4:08 p.m., Saturday September 26: I think this post is wrong. Carnegie's James Acton explains carefully what obligations Iran has violated. My apologies.]

The disclosure of Iran’s nuclear facility under construction for years in secret near Qom — the second such undisclosed facility operated by Iran — deepens More…

The White House Fact Sheet on the New U.N. Nonproliferation Resolution

By | 09.24.09 | 10:48 am

By a unanimous vote, a session of the United Nations Security Council chaired by President Obama has approved Security Council Resolution 1887, a measure to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The White House sent around this factsheet to reporters.

Huge Nuke Slip-Up From the Government Printing Office

By | 06.03.09 | 9:11 am

As first reported by Steve Aftergood on Monday, the United States’ routine declaration of its nuclear weapons facilities to the United Nation’s atomic watchdog agency somehow got published by the Government Printing Office. That meant — as President Obama put it when he shared his highly-confidential-but-unclassified declaration with Congress More…