A Note To Readers
I know that a lot of my readers have .gov and .mil addresses, which means that I need to take special care about how I treat classified material on this website. I’ve spent a few days talking to people, and…
Jeffrey Lewis
180 NATO Nukes
I kind of figured that the Wikileaks cables would reveal a lot about so-called tactical nuclear weapons — like how many the US has in Europe or the current US estimates of the Russian stockpile. One cable, drafted by Ivo…
Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Just before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved, 14-4, the resolution of advice and consent for the New START treaty in September, Idaho Senator Jim Risch attempted to stop the vote, arguing that he had “shocking information that if true…
More on NATO Nukes
We have a second cable from Wikileaks on the subject of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, noting that the Belgian government refused to join an effort by Germany, Netherlands and Italy to ask for the removal of US nuclear weapons…
Pakistan HEU Repatriation
Jane Perlez, David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt highlight in the New York Times a leaked cable from the US Ambassador in Pakistan in June 2009 stating that Pakistan delayed “a visit by U.S. technical experts to discuss logistical and…
NATO Nukes
The first “revelation” from the Wikileaks cache is something we already knew — that there are US nuclear weapons stored in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey — at least, as of November 2009.
Wikileaks and “CableGate”
I know a lot of you with .gov and .mil addresses have been warned to stay far, far away from the Wikileaks material. I am going to spend a lot of time over the next few weeks going through the…
Transcendental Meditation & the NPT
Lost amidst President Obama’s announcement that the US would support permanent membership on the UN Security Council for India, was this little nugget in the India-US Joint Statement calling for a nuclear dialogue among nuclear weapons states: They affirmed the…
IAEA Reports on Iran, Syria
Here are the IAEA Director-General Reports on Iran (GOV/2010/62) and Syria (GOV/2010/63).
NORK Enrichment Facility
Well, well, well. It isn’t just a light water reactor that North Korea is constructing on the decaying Yongbyon site. The North Koreans also showed Sig Hecker a 2,000 centrifuge enrichment facility in what was the empty Fuel Fabrication Plant…
