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During his talk at the IFPA-Fletcher New Triad Conference, General James “Hoss” Cartwright mentioned his blog. How did I miss this? Back in March, “Timmer” at The Daily Brief noted that General Cartwright had been “talking up his Command and…
The Department of States has published the imposition of sanctions on eight firms in the Federal Register, as reported by Bill Gertz and David Sanger. I’ve updated my previous post to reflect official statements by both Indian firms that exported…
Bill Gertz reported that the United States, under the Iran Proliferation Act of 2000, will impose sanctions on nine entities—one Austrian, six Chinese and two Indian firms. The two Indian firms are Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd and Sandhya Organics Ltd.…
Phew! From the “good to know” category. The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces assure us that the extra second being added to 2005 (leap second) is no problem: 28/12/2005 13:20 MOSOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – The extra second being added…
The Defense Appropriations Conference report is out. As expected, the Appropriations Conference gave $4.0 M to PE 0604327F Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) Program for a conventional penetrator sled test as a sort of alternative to the…
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the…
Mark Strauss, editor at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, observed that the Crate and Barrel “Glitter Tree” looks strangely like warheads in a MIRV cofiguration. I agreed. I guess that is a sign to take some time off …
A reader notes that, among the FBI documents related to domestic surveillance the ACLU obtained, one document details surveillance of a protest, planned by Los Angeles Catholic Worker, of a 2001 test of what was then called the National Missile…
Reuters reports that Chinese General Zhu “I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons” Chenghu received an “administrative demerit” recently from the National Defense University, barring him from promotion for one year. An administrative demerit is the second…
Of the many things I wanted to do on Monday (and didn’t), one was to pop over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ new digs on 19th St. for The CIRUS Reactor and The U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement: Will India Declare…
