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		<title>Waiting for Answers on Fordo: What IAEA Inspections Will Tell Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ivanka Barzashka and Ivan Oelrich
After a cascade of disclosures and official announcements, followed by a great deal of conjecture from experts and the media, the Fordo enrichment plant, Iran’s newest enrichment facility located in the mountains near Qom, opened its doors on October 25 to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. The US, France, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calculating Output of the New Iranian Uranium Enrichment Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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On Friday, President Obama announced that the United States knows of a new, undeclared, and hidden underground gas-centrifuge uranium enrichment facility in Iran, near the city of Qom.  Some news reports suggest that 3000 centrifuges will be housed there.  How significant is this discovery?  Well, just in time, our crack FAS researcher, Ivanka Barzashka, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Obama Speech:  The Pentagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has once again pushed nuclear weapons, and his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons, to the center of the world’s stage with his speech yesterday before the United Nations’ General Assembly and his chairing of the United Nations’ Security Council meeting this morning.  He reiterated his goal of ratifying the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Safeguards at Natanz: What Does It All Mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ivanka Barzashka and Ivan Oelrich

A much anticipated IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear activities was leaked today.  The report indicates that, among other things, Iran has conceded to additional safeguard at Natanz.  This is a welcome development but occurring amidst a contested Iranian election, European threats of increased sanctions, continuing oblique hints of Israeli military [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Getting It Right:  More Bad Reasons to Have Nuclear Weapons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released report, U.S. Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century:  Getting It Right, by the ad hoc New Deterrent Working Group with a forward by James Woolsey, is an interesting document.  I believe this report is significant because it might typify the arguments that will be used against arms control treaties in the upcoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Commission and Nuclear &#8220;Requirements&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congressional Commission on the strategic posture report released yesterday is what the Air Force calls a “target rich environment.” There is a lot to shoot at. This essay follows up on the post that Hans Kristensen and I published yesterday. I want to continue the theme I discussed yesterday that the recommendations of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Failure: Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hkristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[






The final report from the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission seems focused on hedging rather than leading.



By Ivan Oelrich and Hans M. Kristensen
The Congressional Strategic Posture Commission report published today is definitely not the place that the President or the nation should look for new ideas on how to reduce the role of nuclear weapons and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ending Nuclear Counterforce</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, 8 April, the Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) jointly released FAS Occasional Paper Number 7, From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence &#8212; A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons.  As part of the release, my coauthors, Stan Norris of NRDC and Hans Kristensen of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Fuel Fabrication:  Step closer to energy independence or a bomb?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/04/1106.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ivanka Barzashka and Ivan Oelrich
Yesterday, on Iran’s national Nuclear Technology Day, President Ahmadinejad announced the country’s latest nuclear advances, which seem to have become an important source of national pride and international rancor.  April 9 marks the day when Iran claimed to have enriched its first batch of uranium in 2006. Yesterday, Ahmadinejad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Iranian Nuclear Day!  And everything you have ever wanted to know about centrifuges.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ioelrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, today, 9 April, is the official Iranian holiday to celebrate all the progress that the Iranians have made toward nuclear self-sufficiency. The Iranian nuclear program is getting lots of news, especially their effort to enrich uranium using centrifuges and today’s inauguration of their new fuel fabrication facility.  The fundamental problem with centrifuges is [...]]]></description>
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