Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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I did not think it was possible, but Kim Jong Il might not be the most colorful character in the entire saga of US-DPRK relations. For all the Il-iminator’s quirks and foibles, that title clearly belongs Bobby Egan — BBQ…
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McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reports that Rice and Gates are headed to Moscow to discuss missile defense deployments in Europe, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and, my favorite, extending the verification provisions of the START treaty: Bush is sending Secretary…
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Jim Hoagland claims a “senior official” says the Israelis struck a “facility … to produce plutonium”: But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may…
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Regular readers know that, following the lead of the estimable Chris Nelson, I am sticking with explanation that what Israeli struck in Syria was a Scud shipment. Now, Laura Rozen helpfully posts 273 words of a 290 word story by…
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Erroll Morris is a documentary film-maker — a very good one at that, having directed Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert McNamara. His column, “Zoom,” contains two posts that detail his fascination with a pair of…
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Hans Kristensen spotted two Chinese 130 m-long SSBNs, side by side, at Huludao Shipyard in Google Earth. I am very excited to see how the Chinese operate these suckers once they are kitted out and the JL-2 is ready. I…
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Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) engaged in a long discussion over the classified budget on programs to defend satellites that made some of his colleagues, including Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) very uncomfortable as Senator Kyl pointed out what wasn’t in the…
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. Okay, so although the original press release that NNSA sent out announcing the JASON report was not so hot, the cover letter that NNSA Administrator Tom D’Agostino sent to Congress the same day was much more forthright: The JASON…
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John Fleck sends along the original NNSA press release summarizing the Jason study suggesting that the RRW certification plan is inadequate. NNSA — before the unclassified summary leaked — was significantly more upbeat in its press release than after: *NNSA…
