Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts
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Scott Gearity has a much-appreciated mention of an Arms Control Today article I wrote about Ukraine’s Kh-55 missile exports. I do, however, wish to correct one small inaccuracy in his description of the piece. Scott writes: Ukraine has now admitted…
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Just noticed this gem in the WMD Commission report RE: Libya’s BW program: That being said, it should be noted that there are few distinguishing characteristics that enable the identification of chemical or biological facilities through imagery or other technical…
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At the beginning of the month I wrote a post about a New York Times article which detailed some of the intelligence reportedly indicating that North Korea sold UF6 to Libya. Specifically, the Times wrote: More recently, United States officials…
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Condoleeza Rice willfully misrepresents the Agreed Framework in order to argue that the United States is safer with stalled Six Party talks and an unfrozen North Korean plutonium program than the Clinton-era Agreed Framework, which produced a verifiable freeze on North Korea’s plutonium efforts.
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The State Department will no longer publish “Patterns of Global Terrorism.” Some officials justified the decision based on methodologocal objetions, but others suggested the statistics were suppressed because they contained bad news about the war on terror. Paul Kerr asks: Which of those explanations sounds more compelling to you?
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Bolton’s (in)famous speech about the Cuban offensive BW effort originally “called for international observers of Cuba’s biological facilities.” Of course, these observers don’t exist because Bolton and the Bush Administration sank the BWC verification protocol.
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I wrote about this around a month ago, but thought I’d raise the issue again. Why didn’t the SFRC ask about Bolton’s role in composing the December 2002 State Department fact sheet that stated—for the first time—that Iraq had tried…
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Reuters reports: Russia is likely to delay shipments of enriched uranium fuel to Iran to start up a Russian-built atomic power plant there until the autumn, a source in the Russian nuclear authority said on Monday. [snip] At the time…
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Has any Senate hearing witness ever before used the phrase “ream him a new one?” Sweet. Amazing what passes for good news these days.
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One of the Senators (Hegel, I think) asked Bolton a few minutes ago during the SFRC hearing why the United States didn’t listen to UNMOVIC and the IAEA when they said Iraq didn’t have WMD. During the course of his…
