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In today’s Washington Times, Bill Gertz penned an interesting item missing from the public debate on reforms to the export control system being implemented by the Obama Administration:
According to congressional aides, the administration has prevented U.S. intelligence agencies from conducting comprehensive assessments of the security impact of the export decontrol plan.
Prevented? In the [...]
Analytical Technology, Inc. (ATI) of Collegeville, Pennsylvania was in a little hot water with the U.S. Government over the alleged export of items to the United Arab Emirates that are controlled for export for chemical and biological proliferation reasons.
According to documents released last week by the U.S. Department of [...]
Earlier today I was reading posts on Andrea Viski’s Nuclear Export Controls blog, and eventually found my way to item on another site related to Taiwan export control issues and Iran.
There is a short story in today’s Tapei Times based on a recently-released WikiLeaks cable. The article, US worried over Taiwan’s exports to Iran, [...]
In less than two weeks Members of Congress will, finally, join in on the export control reform dialogue that the Obama Administration initiated in August 2009. The Export Control Reform Initiative (ECR Initiative) builds upon an inter-agency review process and is supposed “to enhance U.S. national security and strengthen the United States’ ability to counter threats [...]
Republicans won control this week of 1/3 control of the federal political branches. The new Congress is months from being sworn in, but opinionsalreadyaplenty what all this will mean in the foreign affairs and national security law and public policy arena. Word around town is that State Department/DDTC [...]
The Bipartisan Policy Center will host a conference tomorrow at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC: the State of Intelligence Reform. UK high-tech speedboat seems to have finally “floated” past U.S. and U.K. export controls, into Iranian arms. In 2009, the U.S. Government added six parties to a Temporary Denial Order [...]
A legal and diplomatic drama involving export controls and Iran seems to be unfolding in France. According to various news sources last week, a French judge has ordered an investigation as to whether certain items are dual-use under French law. To folks outside of DC, “dual-use” items are usually those that may have [...]
Terry Jeffrey penned a piece yesterday reminding folks not only how U.S. taxpayer monies are sometimes squandered in the international system, but it also highlights how U.S. export control laws are undermined and weakened by it:
American taxpayers not only helped fund Iran’s nuclear program over the past decade, according to a recent report by [...]
It can also provide the private sector – the shipowners, insurance companies, and others – a more reasonable and clear basis to develop anti-piracy policies and procedures.
Developed by the Bush Administration to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction and other proliferation concerns, the Obama Administration should seriously consider adopting a model to combat [...]
The Russian military naval exercises in South America are somewhat of a nostalgic novelty item. It is more annoying than serious a matter. The nuclear cooperation chatter with anti-American leaders in the Western Hemisphere is quite another matter.
At its core, the Russians are upset that the U.S. is working with the Czechs and Poles on a missile defense shield [...]
Russia Offers Nuclear Technology To Brazil
The Russian nuclear agency, Rosatom, is offering Brazil advanced uranium refining technology and new nuclear power plants. “We have a firm conviction that if modern technologies were used here, then natural uranium reserves in Brazil could be increased by many times, at least threefold but possibly five- or tenfold,” [...]
This week, U.S. Department of Energy officials are meeting with counterparts in Brazil to discuss energy cooperation. At about the same time Brazil announced new construction to complete another civilian nuclear reactor, Brazil’s Energy Secretary said this week that Brazil could benefit from U.S. technology and experiences in dealing with nuclear waste. The U.S. should consider [...]
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The following piece by Jason Poblete, "U.S. export control reform: a view from across the pond,"was recently published in the World Export Controls Review journal WorldECR.
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