Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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I am creating a new category called “data points.” Lieutenant General Walter L. Sharp, nominated to be Commander, United States Forces Korea, estimates the size of the North Korean missile stockpile in his answers to advance policy questions from the…
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My blog post on Gordon England and nuclear weapons spending (DEPSECDEF Deeply Confused, March 29, 2008) made Al Kamen’s In the Loop in the Washington Post. While England Slept Usually, witnesses at congressional hearings enlighten lawmakers on the inner workings…
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I hear the Administration has delivered the Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper a/k/a How I learned to stop worrying and love the RRW to the Hill in time for the FY 2009 budget process. Of, course, the NSFOWP is classified.…
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Well, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert told Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda that the “Box on the Euphrates” asked for it, “Japanese government sources” leaked the contents of the meeting to the Asahi Shimbun, and Asahi translated it as “nuclear-related.” Maybe he…
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French nuclear power company Areva has a cartoon touting the the reprocessing of plutonium though as far as I can tell they use neither “reprocess” or “plutonium.” They stick to “recycling” and “fuel” to make it sound green and friendly.…
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I often observe that I am a lousy imagery analyst. Sean O’Connor, it seems to me, is a very, very good one. After an earlier post on my blog, he’s gone out and, in a very nice piece of research,…
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I was reading some recent RRW testimony, when I noticed that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England was not aware that nuclear weapons programs were largely funded out of the Department of Energy budget. I often mistake esoteric facts for…
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I really love WMD Insights. I’ve been meaning to link to a recent article by Markus Binder tracking how the IC has toned down its assessment of Iran’s CW capabilities: In the Sec. 721 report covering the first half of…
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Er, again. Another nuclear weapons related incident: The U.S. military has regained control of four non-nuclear nose cone assemblies for a Minuteman missile mistakenly sent to Taiwan in 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said during a news conference…
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Click on the image for the AFP story, which has the best images, including Sarko talking and, my favorite, Sarko climbing down into a hatch. Launching Le Terrible, France’s new SSBN, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced reductions in France’s arsenal.…
