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Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts

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Toward True Security

Oh, and while we are at it with the public service announcements … UCS will release of Toward True Security with Richard Garwin, Frank von Hippel and Lisbeth Gronlund on Wednesday. What: Briefing and discussion about Toward True Security: Ten…

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Space Race With China?

Gregory Kulacki and I are doin’ the China ASAT talk again at the New America Foundation, Space Race with China?, on Tuesday at 12:15. Here is a short version of the invite; the whole thing is on the NAF website.…

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Forden on the Shahab 3

One of the best things about this damned blog is that really great people will send me little bits of analysis — short pieces that could never make the Washington Post but are totally awesome nonetheless. Click to play. Debris…

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Hill on NORK Declaration, Disablement

Chris Hill’s testimony before the Senate has a couple of big, big developments (with the time stamps for the video) — clearing North Korea on the issue of the aluminum tubes (though not the entire uranium enrichment program) at 56:37…

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A-Bomb in 3-D

Greetings from … Belgium, I think. I am in Europe this week — Den Haag, Bruxelle, Paris and London. Four cities in seven days. I came back from my meetings today to discover, according to A-bomb, that “Iran has joined…

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Suspect Missile Facility Near Tabriz, Iran

Remember that crazy, though possibly true BM-25 story? One detail in the story, originally published by Bild, was that BND had identified a suspect facility near Tabriz. Reader Allen Thomson noticed that someone recently ordered a Digital Globe Image of…

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US Spinning Libyan Centrifuges

Uh, well, no Mr. President, you see, it isn’t exactly like a Sit-N-Spin … Frank Munger has great stuff on his blog again. I missed this but, in September 2005, Y-12 General Manager Dennis Ruddy told reporters that the United…

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USA 193 Comes Down

© John Locker AP’s Eileen Sullivan quotes government officials stating that a US spy satellite “has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March…” The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous…

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It's Official, Wolfie Is Back

In December, I noted a story by Michael Isikoff in Newsweek that Condoleeza Rice would name Paul Wolfowitz to chair the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board. Well, it is official. (Bloomberg News has a nice exposition with a money…

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Albright and Shire on Disblement, Box

David Albright and Jackie Shirer have a really excellent op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that North Korea has significantly met its commitments to disable its plutonium production facilities and declare past nuclear activities. (For recent blog posts on disablement…