Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Hey, remember that front page Washington Times story by Bill Gertz reporting that “China’s intelligence service gained access to a secret National Security Agency listening post in Hawaii through a Chinese-language translation service”? Well, according to Chris Nelson, DoD officials…
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Shortly before I left for the holidays, Congressional Appropriators provided “no funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)” pending “a new strategic nuclear deterrent mission assessment for the 21st century.” The bottom line — no new warheads without a new…
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Steven Aftergood passes along a little humor from the NORKs, via Xinhua News Agency: “DPRK Slams U.S. Senator’s Hardline Remarks” — Xinhua headline Xinhua Wednesday, December 19, 2007 T09:26:37Z PYONGYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
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The Arms Control Association is hosting a contest for the “Arms Control Person of the Year.” Go to http://survey.armscontrol.org/index.php?sid=5 to vote or suggest another candidate worthy of mention and why. And the nominees are …. Jonas Gahr Støre, Foreign Minister…
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The White House has announced what it calls a “significant” reduction in the 2012 stockpile — later clarified to be 15 percent. Although the stockpile size is classified, the announcement suggests the total size will drop from “roughly” a quarter…
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Janne Nolan — author of the pretty amazing An Elusive Consensus — is giving a talk on the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, tomorrow (Tuesday), at a Security for a New Century event on the Hill. I am joining her, which…
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If you followed the arrest of the Roy Lee Oakley — the Oak Ridge contractor who took a couple of broken sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier home and tried to sell them rather ineptly to France (no, I can’t…
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I have mocked the living hell out of this forthcoming administration follow-on white paper to <a href="https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/1587/maintaining-deterrence-in-the-21st-century. “>Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Fund the RRW). My teasing has been based, in…
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For many years, Sha Zukang was a fixture on the disarmament circuit representing China during CTBT negotiations and making the odd statement here or there to cause an international kerfuffle — like when implied that China’s no-first use pledge might…
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I hope readers are enjoying having James and Andy around — with Iran on the front burner and Jane knee-deep in textbooks and problems sets, I figured I could use the help. Among other things, this frees me up to…
