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Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts

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NPT REVCON

http://www.thebulletin.org/weblog/archives/2005/04/a_foreboding_fe_1.htm Sanders: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0305/ijpe/sanders.htm Others, as well, Rademaker at ACA: http://www.armscontrol.org/events/20050203_transcript_hobson.asp

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NSC Shuffle: Luti Takes AC Portfolio

Chris Nelson reports that Bill Luti (pictured with Doug Feith) will replace Frank Miller as Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the new look Bush II NSC staff. Luti is a former aide to Newt Gingrich and…

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Bolton: No "Inhibition" Supporting Some Terrorists

John Bolton, in June 2004, stated that he had no inhibition about cooperating with the Iranian terrorist group, MEK. Michael Roston, in an exclusive for Arms Control Wonk.com, outlines how Bolton came to count the MEK as our terrorists and…

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Today's Nuclear Equation

The State Department has a released an e-journal entitled, Today’s Nuclear Equation. In addition to a digital copy of the “Duck and Cover” video, the e-journal contains a weird smattering of Administration propaganda (including articles from POTUS, DeSutter, Rademaker and…

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Brooks on the Reliable Replacement Warhead

Greetings from the Sandia International Security Conference, which is being held in Chantilly, VA. NNSA Director Linton Brooks, in his Congressional testimony, added some detail to the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program: With the support of Congress, we are beginning a…

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Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations (Joint Publication 3-12)

*[DTIC subsequently removed these documents. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.]* The Joint Staff hates freedom. What else should I conclude when its staff knowingly place classified material they believe could be harmful to national security…

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UNMOVIC Discredited "Curveball" in February 2003

Dafna Linzer—writing the Washington Post—notices that the WMD Commission reveals that UNMOVIC inspections in February 2003 discredited “Curveball”—the defector whose claims about mobile bio-weapons made a liar out of Colin Powell: That Iraq was cooking up biological agents in mobile…

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W-76, Nuclear Testing and the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program

Bill Broad writes in the New York Times about a “fierce debate among experts inside and outside the government over [the W-76 nuclear warhead’s] reliability and its place in the nuclear arsenal.” Broad’s story builds on John Fleck’s excellent reporting…

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A Financial Link in that AQ Khan-North Korea-Libya UF6 Daisy Chain?

David Sanger and Bill Broad have a summary of the North Korea UF6 story based on recent interviews with administration officials and foreign diplomats. The big revelation: Libyan officials have surrendered financial ledgers that reveal front companies for the AQ…