Blog of Note: PONI
The CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) has a new blog. It’s surprisingly good though the author is never identified.
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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AQ Khan Website
Well, well, well. Look who has a website. Next thing you know, he’ll be blogging.
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Wohlstetter Book
You know how people dig throwback jerseys? I was surprised when I saw the cover the Bob Zarate’s edited volume on Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Nuclear Heuristics. It’s a throwback cover, directly referencing Roberta Wohlstetter’s classic, Pearl Harbor: Warning and…
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Test Ban Verification
If you are like me, you were no doubt very excited about the first-ever CTBTO on-site inspection exercise at Semipalatinsk. (Rebecca Johnson turned in a some wonderful dispatches for the Bulletin, while Oliver Meier had a nice write-uP for Arms…
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Tinner Talks
Urs Tinner, AQ Khan associate and suspected CIA informant, gave an interview to SF1, a Swiss television station. According to AP’s Frank Jordans, Tinner admits to working for the US intelligence community, in particular for tipping them on the BBC…
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MiTEx Sats Inspect DSP-23
I am recovering after bringing home an Italian bug of some sort: Grazie mille, Italia. For some reason, the topic of autonomous proximity operations keeps coming up (See my previous post on the BX-1 panic.) The Air Force is going…
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How Tall Was the Box
The debate continues over Yousry Abushady’s remarkable appearance on Egyptian television. The interview is notable, as one observer notes, because Abushady “is speaking in his personal capacity, which is soon-to-be retired.” You just don’t see IAEA officials doing television interviews…
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NORK HEU 3 1/2 Years Old?
Greetings from Milan. For reasons that I will decline to speculate on, Steve Hadley decided to take an internal debate within the intelligence community and make it very public: This is especially true because some in the intelligence community have…
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Urs Walks
Urs Tinner, alleged Khan middleman, is free — according to AP: A Swiss man suspected of involvement in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring has been released from prison after more than four years of investigative detention, his family said…
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Nuclear Winter T-Shirt
Click on the image for more detail. $15 from shirt.woot. F’ing awesome.