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29 Jan 2009 - - Fox News - Gary Samore Tapped for Weapons of Mass Destruction 'Czar' Prior to his job at the Council on Foreign Relations, he was Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation at the International institute for Strategic Studies in Britain. His main responsibilities included directing the think tank's program called "Fostering an International Consensus on Fighting the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)", which the IISS says seeks to "strengthen transatlantic cooperation and promote coordinated responses to threats posed by the proliferation of nucle
29 Jan 2009 - - ABC News - New White House WMD Czar Wants Immediate Talks with Iran, to 'Manage' North Korea Until it Collapses Samore served as Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls on the National Security Council from 1996-2001 and has been focused on non-proliferation issues throughout his career. He recently served as editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
Iran 'reaches key nuclear goal' A recent International Institute for Strategic Studies report said if Iran could operate 3,000 centrifuges smoothly, one bomb could be produced within nine to 11 months.
Iran's Bogus Bomb Threat According to the "Iran Dossier" prepared by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 3,000 first-generation Iranian centrifuges operating perfectly for approximately one year could produce enough fissile material to fuel one nuclear bomb. That makes the Iranian announcement sound pretty scary. But it's far from clear that Iran can come anywhere close to perfection in operating its machines. David Albright recently estimated, based on data published by the International...
Iranian nuclear issue putting region at risk The outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 and the nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan and India in May 1998 pushed Iran to consider the ownership of nuclear weapons as an authorized capital for its national defense. The growing political problems in the Middle East, especially the existence of Israel nuclear capability has also increasingly pushed Iran to consider possessing nuclear weapons. The U.S. Ambassador for IAEA, Gregory L. Schulte estimates that Iran now has -- to quote the...
Timeline: Iran Nuclear Crisis Sept., 2005: A study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concludes that Iran is still several years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability. Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country has an "inalienable right" to produce nuclear fuel. The IAEA passes a resolution setting Iran up for referral to the U.N. Security Council at a later date, on the grounds of Tehran's non-compliance with international...
Iran Declares Another Nuclear Advance An operational reactor would put Iran among fewer than a dozen countries with heavywater technology. Among the other countries are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — and Canada, India and Norway. The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London estimated that the heavy-water reactor, once up and running, would need a year to produce enough plutonium for a single "simple implosion...
Iran calls the shots on nuclear tango with US Historically, Washington has considered - but abandoned - plans to eliminate emerging nuclear programmes from the onset, be it in the former Soviet Union during the 1950s, China in the 1960s or North Korea in the 1990s.Despite its lack of options, however, analysts agree that Washington still has some time - possibly years - to mull over difficult options such as a strike.The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies estimates Iran will still need between three and five years...
Time's Up For Iran Iran has signaled its intent to build a nuclear weapon, and soon. The International Institute for Strategic Studies last year estimated it might be "several years" before Iran got a bomb. But Western intelligence sources fear it could be much shorter -- giving Iran nuclear-tipped missiles with which to threaten Europe, its hated enemy Israel and its Sunni Muslim neighbors.
Council vote unlikely to end Iran impasse Scholars at the London-based think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says Iran is at least ten years from producing enough highly enriched uranium for a single nuclear device.
No Evidence of Secret Enrichment by Iran London's International Institute for Strategic Studies produced a report last year referring to suspicions that the P-2 centrifuge was "the nucleus of a secret enrichment programme". Nevertheless, Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior specialist on Iran's nuclear programme at the IISS, told IPS there is "no evidence" of a P-2 programme that could enrich uranium any time soon, and that Iran has focused on enriching uranium with P-1 centrifuges.
Iran: What the U.S. Isn't Telling So when can it be expected for Iran to develop its nuclear bomb, if that is the intention? Time frames are rather sketchy considering several factors. Because nuclear development for energy purposes and weaponry are similar during the early stages, it can be difficult to make a distinction for any nations’ intentions for the technology. Since Iran has managed to keep some of its facilities under the radar, it will be hard for the IAEA to gather exact intelligence all of the time. Another...
June 8 2006 - - Prospect - How to build a bomb By Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation
Diplomatic, not aid sanctions more effective Dr. Chipman is in the country to confirm the participation of Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Shangri-La Dialogue 2006, a conclave of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region to be held in Singapore from June 2-4. The conclave, ostensibly of an informal nature, will include sessions on India and China as emerging global powers, maritime security in the region and counter-insurgency warfare in the 21st century. He will be back later this year to invite the defence minister to...
Chances rising of military strike on Iran "I think it's more than just putting pressure on Iran. I think it's a real possibility," argued Mark Fitzpatrick, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). "The (US) administration is looking at it seriously, not for using it today but if all else fails, as a last option."
British Report Analyzes West's Failure Mark Fitzpatrick, director of Non-Proliferation Programme for International Institute for Strategic Studies" took part in a lecture. He said that Iran would probably acquire a nuclear weapon within a period of three to five years and added, "The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced it was expecting this to happen within 10 years. But it is cautious when speculating about the Iranian nuclear program following the mistakes it made when it speculated about the former Iraqi...
Iran Advances Could Speed Nuclear Process A private group, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, also said in a recent report that the fact that Iran had hedged on providing information about the P-2 centrifuges raised worries that the more advanced machines might be the basis of a secret program.
Iran claim on nuclear plan raises new fears So far his answers have been vague, investigators say. Iran, for its part, has said virtually nothing about its P-2 program. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, an arms analysis group in London, said in a report last year that Iran's failure to provide more information about its P-2 program led many analysts to suspect that the advanced centrifuges formed "the nucleus of a secret enrichment program."
Iran and the nuclear spin cycle According to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, with 1000 working centrifuges at Natanz, it would take just over two years to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a bomb - without the IAEA safeguards which are currently in place. With 3000 centrifuges - the number Iran has told the Europeans it wants to install at Natanz - it would take 271 days to produce the same amount of weapons-grade fuel.
Iran and 'The Bomb' Iran's nuclear programme consists of the following; a 5 MW research reactor (bought from the US in the 1960s), a 30 KW miniature neutron source reactor, a 1000 MW reactor currently being constructed via a contract with Russia, a uranium enrichment research laboratory in Natanz, and a heavy water facility in Arak, which is also under construction. But the greatest fear for the international community lies in its enrichment capabilities, which if further developed to the level scientists call...