Bang!
CNN has more video of the Yongbyon Cooling Tower being destroyed — although most of it comes with annoying adverts. I observe that Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs at the Depatment of State, and Kevin Veal,…
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Medcalf on India & Testing
Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the…
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No Nukes At Lakenheath
Well, maybe they aren’t, after all. As we discussed last week in the comments, there are no U.S. nuclear weapons at Lakenheath Air Base. The non-presence of U.S. nuclear weapons was confirmed by several sources to Hans Kristensen last week,…
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Articles on China ASATs
Dwane Day has had enough of the Pentagon’s Chinese Military Power (CMP) and its slipshod accounting of Chinese military space programs: The Pentagon report is sloppy, inconsistent, and of limited utility, and as an indicator of what China is planning…
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Strategic Posture Commission Update 2
The work of the Strategic Posture Commission appears to be proceeding. After some scheduling hiccups (I am being kind), the first full meeting was held at USIP on June 17. Dr. Perry had earlier convened a smaller meeting on May…
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Will India Test Again?
A colleague of mine notes that Indian PM Manmohan Singh, in his address to the conference Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, omitted any mention of India’s voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing. Here is the key paragraph: India is…
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Hibbs Reviews Books on Pak Bomb
If there were an award for journalism on matters nuclear, it would be the Mark Hibbs Award and the eponymous author would be permanently ineligible just to give everyone else a chance. Six of his competitors have recently published a…
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NATO Nukes Not Secure
Hans Kristensen notes the final report of the Air Force Blue Ribbon Review of Nuclear Weapons Policies and Procedures reveals what has been an open secret in Washington for some time — that overseas bases with US nuclear weapons have…
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House E&W Denies Funding for RRW, Again
The House Energy and Water Subcommittee has again denied funding for the RRW in the FY09 Appropriations bill: Last year, the Administration proposed the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) as the first of a new generation of nuclear warheads. The Administration…
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Pakistani Design In Switzerland
Greetings from Beijing We now have David Albright’s essay on the advanced nuclear weapons design, as well as stories in the New York Times and Washington Post. (David Sanger, Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Weapon, June 15, 2008; David Sanger…