So Long, Cheyenne Mountain
Well, the folks at the Target Store in Colorado Springs can breath a sigh of relief: NORAD is moving up the road to Peterson Air Force Base and putting Cheyenne Mountain on standby. The Denver Post has some nice images…
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Reliable Replacement Warhead Redux
Haninah Levine has the second of what will be four articles at DefenseTech.org on the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. In these cases, a dilemma arises: should the nuclear production complex go to extreme lengths to recreate the processes needed to…
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Urs Tinner
The bird must be destroyed, feathers and all. They fed us to the dogs. Those were a pair of SMS messages, exchanged by accused middlemen Gerhard Wisser and Johan Meyer, after Libya came out of the cold and admitted to…
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Nukes: Betcha Can't Make Just One!
Stephen Schwartz is guest-blogging at DefenseTech. I am cross posting his piece on the Reliable Replacement Warhead. Remember those commercials for Lay’s potato chips where the announcer says that Lay’s are so good that you can’t eat just one? Well,…
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Pak Bomb Factory
David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released commercially available satellite images of a new Pakistani plutonium production reactor under construction. (Here is a GoogleEarth placemark.) This is really great work. Precisely the…
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Ain't No Party Like A State Department Party
I know, it is the New York Post, so grain of salt and all … A State Department worker cruising down 34th Street with three scantily clad women in what appeared to be a government car with flashing lights collided…
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Securing the Bomb 2006
During Will Tobey’s confirmation hearing, Senator Levin asked the nominee for NNSA Deputy Administrator about Securing the Bomb 2006 SENATOR CARL LEVIN: Thank you. Mr. Tobey, last week the Nuclear Threat Initiative, NTI, issued its most recent Managing the Atom…
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Classified Blogging
The most fascinating aspect of the story about the contractor fired for something she wrote on her blog on Intelink is that Intelink has blogs. That wasn’t the case in March 2005 when Kris Alexander—an intelligence officer in the US…
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Joseph on India
Friend of Wonk Jofi Joseph has a great op-ed in Defense News, arguing that the Administration should admit that the US-India nuclear deal trades nonproliferation interests for a strategic partnership with India, and accept Congressional efforts to limit the nonproliferation…
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China's Incredible Shrinking Missile
I was pleased to be quoted in a recent edition of The Economist (“Out of their silos,” June 8, 2006) saying “Chinese leaders are less worried about a pre-emptive strike by the Americans than about an accidental or unauthorised launch…