I mentioned it once before in “this post,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2176/nukemap but Alex Wallerstein’s “Restricted Data blog”:http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/ really is the dog’s danglers.

There’s all manner of great stuff, including the “list of documents”:http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/document-list/ for download.

In the somewhat less-serious category, there are posts such as “this one”:http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/04/20/friday-images-nevada-test-sites-arnold-opsec-videos/ about USFG reminders to safeguard sensitive information. Specifically, it contains

bq. a *series of OPSEC videos* the DOE Nevada Operations Office put together in what looks like the late 1980s or early 1990s, featuring *the hapless character “Arnold OPSEC.”* They are little film clips (non-animated) demonstrating poor, dumb Arnold OPSEC as he accidentally divulges classified information through clumsy practices.

This “video”:http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/media/mpg/arnold/22.mpg of a guy with a mobile phone the size of a cinderblock is particularly silly.

A little while back, I was looking through “this”:http://www.ndu.edu/library/epubs/cpgw.pdf 1992 DoD report about the 1991 Gulf War and discovered this line on p. 150:

bq. Intelligence estimates varied, but the planning assumption was that Iraq could produce a rudimentary nuclear weapon by the end of 1992, if not sooner.

ACA’s Peter Crail saved me some work with “this post”:http://armscontrolnow.org/2012/04/30/u-s-position-on-iran-enrichment-more-public-recognition-than-policy-shift/#more-2885 illustrating that the P5+1 have, according to their stated policies, been wiling to consider an Iranian enrichment facility for 5+ years now.

As Peter says:

bq. the potential to discuss with Iran the conditions under which it could continue enrichment is not new. In fact, it is built into the proposals that the P5+1 have offered Iran since 2006, spanning the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.

*Update “here”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2212/yet-more-on-indian-enrichment*

As a follow-up to “this post,”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2206/indian-weapons-grade-heu I thought I’d post some other related documents from the “National Security Archive.”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Obviously, this is a subject I’ve been reading about a little.

Two documents concern India’s centrifuge program. According to “this 1982”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/IN31.pdf assessment, “New Delhi is conducting research into centrifuge enrichment” for nuclear power reactors.

“This”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/IN34.pdf 1988 assessment says that, according to India, New Delhi had “mastered the enrichment process using an ‘experimental centrifuge’.” The assessment describes the centrifuge as “probably similar to a “Zippe”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4857123 centrifuge.”

Interestingly, “this”:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/IN30.pdf 1982 document mentions Indian research on the “Laser Isotope Separation (LIS) method of uranium enrichment,” something I don’t recall hearing about previously. The assessment states that India hadn’t gotten further than “separating sulphur isotopes.”