Four years ago, U.N. inspectors concluded that Iraq had failed to .. account for large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, weapons capable of killing millions. In last month’s declaration, Iraq again failed to account for those weapons. The Iraqi…
Some of us in the arms control community, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, groused about the State Department’s decision to shut down the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board: After the George W. Bush administration came into office, the…
Jane Vaynman points out that the declassified Niger memo, as reported by Eric Lichtblau in the New York Times, is available at JudicialWatch.org The memo makes some of the same logistical arguments about the difficulty of smuggling yellowcake—including the presence…
Jofi Joseph says something simple, sensible and overdue: The Bush administration’s most blatant misrepresentation of intelligence was its claim that Iraq’s attempts at purchasing thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes was part of an effort to build nuclear centrifuges to produce…
Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, gave the luncheon address here at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference. He actually described the US decision to sink the BWC draft protocol as “an act of leadership more…
Look for Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun to break some big intelligence stories out of the DNI’s office in future—she gives DDNI General Michael V. Hayden some sugary lovin’ in a classic beat sweetner today: Michael V. Hayden sets…
Dave Ruppe in Global Security Newswire reports “the U.S. State Department this month quietly began implementing a major reorganization plan to eliminate its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, despite a U.S. Senate hold on the plan…” Congressional Staff seem bewildered…
The State Department’s Bureau of Verification and Compliance has issued its “annual” report concerning Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament Agreements. (And by “annual”, BVC means just twice in five years. The previous report, released in…
Tired of the leaks, spin and misinformation Bill Gertz is pushing? Bill Gertz of the Washington Times distorts a report into accusing the US intelligence community of having “failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past…
Two U.S. officials tell Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post the Bush Administration will drop efforts to deny Mohamed ElBaradei a third term as IAEA Director-General: “We’re willing to lift our objections under certain conditions,” one of the officials said.…
