Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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The New York Times has a nice write-up of New America’s upcoming leadership transition to Steve Coll, including a rather pleasant reference to my initiative on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation: Steve Coll, whose résumé as a journalist includes two Pulitzer…
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Some folks are suggesting that we should go easy on Roy Lee Oakley—the inept contract worker attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barriers to an FBI agent posing as a French embassy employee—on the grounds that gaseous diffusion…
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Hey, you remember Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir? The guy President Bush called the Khan network’s chief financial officer and money launderer? The guy described as a creepy little puke with a man-crush on AQ Khan, tooling around Dubai in a…
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Update: Here is the indictment. Gee, first we had the Los Alamos Meth Lab case, then the Sandia Stalker, and now Oak Ridge has A. Q. Oakley. NNSA should have its own episode of Cops. Roy Lynn Oakley, a Bechtel…
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A. Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb, or B. Sandia’s Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory receives green building certification.
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Hans Kristensen is getting a solid, well-deserved round of credit for spotting China’s new ballistic missile subarmine—the Jin class or Type 094 SSBN—sitting along side a dock in Google Earth. (Here is a .kmz file) It looks like a positive…
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Well, the NIE on terrorism is out. The NIE confirms, in very broad language, that Al Qaeda would like to make the biggest boom: We assess that al-Qa’ida will continue to try to acquire and employ chemical, biological, radiological, or…
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What is the President talking about? Seriously, I am not even making fun. I have no idea: And, finally, we talked about how we can enhance mutual security issues. And there’s no better symbol of our desire to work for…
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IAEA inspectors have confirmed that the NORKs have shut down 15-20 MWt reactor at Yongbyon. That’s a welcome bit of news, as they go about verifying the freeze that North Korea will place on five of its nuclear facilities (the…
