An astute reader pointed out that AQ Khan recently “commented on”:http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-18638-Benazir-had-capped-uranium-enrichment-at-5pc-Dr-AQ-Khan Pakistan’s decision in the 1980s to refrain from producing WGHEU.

According to Khan, then- Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

bq. ordered me to *stop the enrichment of uranium at 5%* as she wanted to please the United States and get aid,” Dr Qadeer said adding: “The enrichment was stopped at 5% as per the orders of the Prime Minister.

This action has been known for a while, but both the astute reader and I think this the first public AQK conformation of it.

I was just thinking that it’s great to be in a meeting where the above sentence makes sense.

There is literally nothing interesting about that phrase.

Not long after I “blogged about”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/2272/10-years-ago-unscr-1441 UNSCR 1441, I remembered “this compendium.”:http://www.un.org/depts/unmovic/new/pages/compendium.asp

November 8, 2002. The UN Security Council adopted “Resolution 1441.”:http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/documents/1441.pdf

It had something to do with Iraq’s WMD programs.

I like to post primary source documents about proliferation. But Jeffrey has posted a bunch in a really outstanding “column”:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/30/nightmare_on_nuke_street?page=full over at _Foreign Policy_ which describes a bunch of nuclear weapons-realted accidents and near-misses that have occurred over the years.

On this blog, I refrain from making policy recommendations, but I can make an exception in this case:

bq. There is no reason to believe the apocryphal story about the British Army choosing red uniforms because they do not show blood. But after 60-odd years of nuclear accidents, incidents, and whatnot, I can recommend that the STRATCOM commander consider brown pants.

Definitely check it out….you can augment your document collection whilst giggling.

An observant reader sent “this short article”:http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/10/18/passport-of-ex-a-q-khans-meteorologist-seized-name-placed-on-ecl/ about the ex-meteorologist for Dr. A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories, Dr Nazir Ahmed, who, according to the piece,

bq. was placed on Exit Control List (ECL) and his passport was suspended after suspected of having ties with the global network of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadir Khan involved in expanding nuclear technology.

Interestingly, the article contains a photo of the entrance to KRL “Take a look.”:http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/10/18/passport-of-ex-a-q-khans-meteorologist-seized-name-placed-on-ecl/

The “most recent”:http://www.isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Iran_report_–_August_30_2012.pdf IAEA report about Iran has a handy charts on pages 12 and 13 documenting what Iran has produced and when, in terms of nuclear fuel.

I usually link to these sooner, but “here”:http://www.isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Iran_report_–_August_30_2012.pdf it is. Housekeeping, etc.

Yesterday, the EU Council “announced”:http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/132833.pdf that it was placing additional sanctions on Iran.

Well, “here is”:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:282:0016:0022:EN:PDF the implementing regulation. And “here is”:http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:282:0058:0069:EN:PDF the Council decision as it appeared in the official EU Journal.

The Annexes of these regulations always make for interesting reading because they provide details regarding the decision to sanction an entity that typically don’t appear in U.S. sanctions announcements.