Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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I attended an interesting meeting today that Flynt Leverett hosted with two high-powered Turkish officials from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) — Ibrahim Kalin, chief foreign policy adviser to the Prime Minister, and a Suat Kiniklioglu, a Turkish…
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Greetings from Monterey, California and the 20th Anniversary Conference of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. (After convalescing in the hot tub last night, I made it half way through John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and a demi bouteille of…
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Last winter, after a visit to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston — the Los Alamos or Livermore of the United Kingdom — I came away with a new understanding of how intertwined the US and UK nuclear weapons programs…
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Nicholas Kralev has an interesting story on the impending closure of the Votkinsk Portal Monitoring Facility. The key grafs confirm that rumor that the Bush Administration made the concession to Russian on ending monitoring at Votkinsk in November 2008: Congressional…
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In 1986, Time Magazine hosted a conference in Washington on the Strategic Defense Initiative. You know it is the 1980s because a news magazine was hosting a conference on nuclear weapons. The images from the conference, by the way, are…
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This has taken me a couple of days to get to, but Hans Kristensen penned a nice post (China’s Noisy Nuclear Submarines) about China’s new Type 094 ballistic missile submarine, based on an Office of Naval Intelligence document entitled The…
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Warhead replacement is dead. Or it should be. Several of us have been eagerly awaiting the release of the JASON report on Life Extension Programs, which reportedly concluded that Life Extension was preferred to warhead replacement. It’s here. Arms Control…
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Here they are: Iran and Syria. The Iran report has lots of details on Qom site (also known as Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant), which the IAEA places at 20 km north of Qom.
