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ISIS Issue Brief:November IAEA Report: Centrifuge File Not Closed; Natanz Enrichment Expands By David Albright and Jacqueline ShireNovember 15, 2007
IAEA Report on Iran:Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran November 15, 2007
A Witches Brew? Evaluating Iran's Uranium-Enrichment Progressby David Albright and Jacqueline ShireAppearing in November 2007 issue of Arms Control Today
ISIS Imagery Brief:Syria Update II: Syria Buries Foundation of Suspect Reactor SiteInstitute for Science and International SecurityOctober 26, 2007
ISIS Imagery Brief:Syria Update: Suspect Reactor Site Dismantled by David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline ShireOctober 25, 2007
ISIS Imagery Brief:Suspect Reactor Construction Site in Eastern Syria: The Site of the September 6 Israeli Raid?by David Albright and Paul BrannanOctober 24, 2007
USIP Working Paper:Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilitiesby David Albright and Paul BrannanOctober 25, 2007
Korea Working Group:
The U.S. Institute of Peace's Korea Working Group (KWG) commissioned this Working Paper in order to facilitate a better understanding of nuclear disablement. The KWG regularly brings together the leading North Korea watchers from the government and think tank communities to discuss pressing policy issues in the political, security, social, and economic fields. The KWG is the only group of its kind in Washington, D.C. The Chair of the Korea Working Group is Ambassador Richard Solomon, President of USIP. The Director is John Park.
Iran's Nuclear Program: What the 2008 Presidential Candidates are Saying by Jelena Avramovic and Andrea ScheelOctober 17, 2007
ISIS Issue Brief on Iran:IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Limited Progess in enrichment; controversial strategy on outstanding issues; continued defiance of UN Security Council by David Albright and Jacqueline ShireAugust 30, 2007
IAEA Report on Iran:Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran August 30, 2007
ISIS Issue Brief on Iran:A Flawed IAEA-Iran Agreement on Resolving Outstanding Issues(Errors in paragraph 3 corrected)by David Albright and Jacqueline ShireAugust 28, 2007
Agreement between Iran and the IAEA regarding current and outstanding issuesAugust 27, 2007
ISIS Report on Iran:New Tunnel Construction at Mountain Adjacent to the Natanz Enrichment ComplexBy David Albright and Paul BrannanJuly 9, 2007
Monitoring and Verification in the DPRKBy Director GeneralJuly 3, 2007
"Finding Innovative Ways to Detect and Thwart Illicit Nuclear Trade"2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conferenceby David Albright, Matti Tarvainen and Ralf WirtzJune 26, 2007
Pakistan Appears to be Building a Third Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab Nuclear SiteBy David Albright and Paul BrannanJune 21, 2007
Remarks after Receiving an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters DegreeBy David AlbrightJune 9, 2007Wright State UniversityDayton, Ohio
ISIS Report on Iran: IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Iran Making Progress but Not Yet Reliably Operating an Enrichment Plant, David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan, May 25, 2007.
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, May 23, 2007.
IAEA Letter: Communication dated 18 April 2007 from the Secretariat to the Resident Respresentative of the Islamic Republic of Iran, April 18, 2007.
ISIS Imagery Brief on Iran: Further Construction at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor, By David Albright and Paul Brannan, March 20, 2007.
ISIS Report on North Korea: Phased International Cooperation with North Korea's Civil Nuclear Programs, By David Albright, March 19, 2007.
Hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade : Iran's Nuclear Crisis: Latest Developments and Next Steps, Testimony by David Albright, March 15, 2007.
ISIS Report on Iran: Iran's Centrifuges: How well are they working? By Jacqueline Shire and David Albright, March 15, 2007.
ISIS Report on North Korea: North Korea's Alleged Large-Scale Enrichment Plant: Yet Another Questionable Extrapolation Based on Aluminum Tubes, by David Albright, February 23, 2007.
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 22, 2007.
ISIS Report on North Korea: The North Korean Plutonium Stock, February 2007, David Albright and Paul Brannan February 20, 2007.
ISIS Event at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Report from North Korea: David Albright and Joel Wit will report on their findings from their recent trip to North Korea including an updated in-depth analysis of North Korea's separated plutonium stockpile and uranium enrichment program. They will discuss issues surrounding the implementation of the recent Six-Party agreement in Beijing as well as how confidence building measures and cooperative threat reduction initiatives can be applied to eliminating North Korea's nuclear program.
10:00 AM, February 21, 2007 Choate Room Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036
US Korea Institute at SAIS: Report from Pyongyang: North Korea's Nuclear Future, Lecture by David Albright and Joel Wit on their findings from their recent trip to North Korea, 5:30 PM, February 14, 2007
IAEA Report on Iran: Technical Cooperation between Iran and the IAEA in the light of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006), February 9, 2007.
ISIS Report: India's Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes, David Albright and Susan Basu, January 18, 2007.
ISIS Report: Chashma Nuclear Site in Pakistan with Possible Reprocessing Plant, David Albright and Paul Brannan, January 18, 2007.
ISIS Report: India's Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes, David Albright and Susan Basu, December 8, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief: Latest IAEA Report on Iran: Continued Progress on Cascade Operations, No New Cooperation with IAEA, David Albright and Jacqueline Shire, November 14, 2006.
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, November 14, 2006.
ISIS Report: Iran's Nuclear Program: Flawed House Intelligence Committee Report Should Be Amended or Withdrawn, David Albright and Jacqueline Shire, November 9, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: North Korean Site After Nuclear Test, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 17, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 10, 2006
Update on the Construction of the New, Large Khushab Reactor, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 4, 2006
ISIS Issue Analysis: Iran's NPT Violations: Numerous and Possibly On-Going?, Jacqueline Shire and David Albright, September 29, 2006
ISIS Issue Analysis: Iran's Response to the EU: Confused but Sporadically Hopeful, Jacqueline Shire and David Albright, September 11, 2006
Full Text of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Response to the Package Presented on June 6, 2006
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, August 31, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief: Iran's Centrifuge Program: Defiant but Delayed, Jacqueline Shire and David Albright, August 31, 2006.
ISIS Imagery Brief: IAEA Inspectors and Iran Clash Over Frequency of Inspections of Underground Facilities, David Albright and Paul Brannan, August 23, 2006.
A Further Discussion of the New, Large Khushab Reactor, David Albright and Paul Brannan, August 4, 2006
ISIS Report on Pakistan: Commercial Satellite Imagery Suggests Pakistan is Building a Second, Much Larger Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab, David Albright and Paul Brannan, July 24, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief on Iran: Better Carrots, not Centrifuges: Why Iran must halt its centrifuges and what the U.S. can do to make it happen, David Albright and Jacqueline Shire, July 10, 2006.
ISIS Report on DPRK: The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2006, David Albright and Paul Brannan, June 26, 2006. See Press Release
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, June 8, 2006.
IAEA Report on Iran: Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, April 28, 2006.
ISIS Imagery Brief: "Update on Construction Activities at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor," David Albright & Paul Brannan, April 21, 2006.
ISIS Imagery Brief: "New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in Iran," David Albright & Paul Brannan, April 14, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief: "Neither a Determined Proliferator Nor a Responsible Nuclear State: India's Record Needs Scrutiny," David Albright and Susan Basu, April 5, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief: "The Clock is Ticking, But How Fast?" David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, March 27, 2006.
New ISIS Report: "India's Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How," by David Albright and Susan Basu, March 10, 2006.
New satellite image of the Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Iran. Posted January 13, 2006.
ISIS Issue Brief:,"Iran’s Next Steps: Final Tests and the Construction of a Uranium Enrichment Plant," David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, January 12, 2006. (opens in .pdf format)
Report, "Separating Indian Military and Civilian Nuclear Facilities," by David Albright and Susan Basu, December 19, 2005.
From ISIS Press ~~
Transcript: "Building Nuclear Confidence on the Korean PeninsulaProceedings of the July 23-24, 2001 Workshop"Sponsored by the Technology Center for Nuclear Control and the Korea Institute for National Unification
Solving the North Korean Nuclear PuzzleRead about ISIS's publication, which describes the decade-long effort to ensure that North Korea does not have nuclear weapons.
The principal findings of the book can be found in the Epilogue.
Other materials relevant to Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle:
Press Release
Remarks by David Albright
Remarks by Kevin O'Neill
Table of Contents
What Others Say About the Book
Contributing Authors
Purchase this Book
Nuclear Terrorism
"Nuclear Non-Proliferation Concerns and Export Controls in Russia" by David Albright (Testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, June 6 2002).
"Bin Laden and the Bomb,"by David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002.
Al Qaeda Nuclear and Conventional Explosive Documents: CNN - ISIS Collaboration
"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Complex," by David Albright (Paper commissioned and sponsored by the Stanley Foundation for the 42nd Strategy for Peace Conference, Strategies for Regional Security (South Asia Working Group), October 25-27, 2001, Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, Virginia.)
"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal: Priciples for Assistance," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
"South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Storage Vault," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
"The First Casualty of the War on Terrorism must not be Pakistan: Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons must not fall into Terrorists' Hands," ISIS Press Release, September 18, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)[*.html version]
"Nuclear Terrorism: The Unthinkable Nightmare," ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)[*.html version]
"The Nuclear Terrorist Threat," by Kevin O'Neill, August, 1997 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
"South Africa's Nuclear Weaponization Efforts: Success on a Small Scale", by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version](requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
Conference Proceedings ~~
Addressing Excess Stocks of Civil and Military Plutonium Proceedings of the December 10, 2001 ISIS Conference
Understanding the Lessons of Nuclear Inspections and Monitoring in Iraq: A Ten-Year Review"
Keynote address by Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn
Lunchtime address by former UNSCOM Deputy Executive Director Robert Gallucci
Presentation by former IAEA Action Team Deputy Leader Dimitri Perricos
Presentation by former Action Team inspector Jere Nichols
Panel on Lessons Learned, featuring Garry Dillon, Ephraim Asculai, and Michael Eisenstadt
Case Studies of Nuclear Export Control ViolationsIndex of individuals who contributed to ISIS's understanding of export control violations, including the CV of Khidhir Hamza.
The Export Control Index includes five papers prepared by ISIS for two seminars in Russia, held in April 2001. The papers discuss how Iraq obtained sensitive nuclear-related and dual-use items, technology and "know-how" in the 1980s from Karl Heinz Schaab, Bruno Stemmler, Dietrich Hinze, and others.
Civil Separated Plutonium Stocks--Planning for the FutureGo to an index of the proceedings of the March 2000 ISIS-sponsored conference.
Remarks by Michael RietzRietz is German criminal defense lawyer whose clients include Hinze and Schaab. He addressed an ISIS-sponsored luncheon on December 10, 1999 where he discussed his clients' motives for providing sensitive technologies to Iraq's nuclear and missile programs prior to the Persian Gulf War.
Satellite Imagery ~~
ISIS Issue Brief: Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 10, 2002.
Evaluation of a 1-meter satellite image of the Algerian nuclear reactor site.
Annotated images of Algeria's nuclear site at Ain Oussera.
An Overhead Tour: The Yongbyon Nuclear Siteby David Albright and Corey Hinderstein (On-line version of chapter 3 from Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle).
Publications, Papers and Assessments ~~
New -->ISIS Report: Global Fissile Material Inventories
Plutonium Watch--Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories, by David Albright and Kimberly Kramer, June 2004
ISIS Issue Brief: Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 10, 2002.
North Korea: It's Taking Too Long, by David Albright and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002.
Press Release announcing the publication of "The Iraqi Maze: Searching for a Way Out," by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill, in the Fall-Winter 2001 issue of The Nonproliferation Review.
David Albright's remarks before the U.S.-Korea Working Group at the Brookings Institute.
Algeria: Big deal in the desert? from the May/June 2001 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein.
Stay the Course on North Korea, a policy brief by Holly Higgins urging the Bush administration to continue to engage North Korea, particularly with respect to the 1994 Agreed Framework. The press release for the policy brief can be found here.
ISIS Press Release, March 1, 2001 -- 1979 South Atlantic "Flash" is Consistent with a Nuclear Explosion, According to Newly Declassified Energy Department DocumentsFindings dispute public explanation offered by Presidential panel at the time of the event.
Plutonium Watch--Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories: End of 1999, by David Albright and Mark Gorwitz, October 2000
India's and Pakistan's Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventories, end of 1999, by David Albright
Iraq's Efforts to Acquire Information about Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Related Technologies from the United Statesby David Albright and Kevin O'Neill. This report, prepared for the Department of Energy, summarizes a draft report authored by, and transcripts of interviews with, former Iraqi scientist Khidhir Hamza. The ISIS summary report was the subject of an article in the New York Times, which appeared on March 22, 2000.
Comparison of Drafts of Comprehensive Security Council Resolution on Iraqby David Albright and Corey Hinderstein. A copy of UN Security Council Resolution 1284, which established UNMOVIC, can be found here.
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