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China’s Central Military Commission Xiong Guangkai Ain’t On It … A little low hanging fruit this morning. Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough report: Pentagon officials said Chinese Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Xiong Guangkai is retiring. Gen. Xiong … is…
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement to the Korean Central News Agency declaring North Korea’s nuclear status: We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT and have manufactured nukes for self-defence…
They say they got ‘em. Do they? Why did they choose to share this information? Film at 11. Or blog post at like … later.
The CTBTO offices in Vienna. The Bush Administration has hacked 25 percent from its budget request for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), reports David Ruppe over at Global Security Newswire. The Bush Administration’s FY 2006 Budget Request…
Wonky readers will, no doubt, be pouring over the President’s FY 2006 Defense Budget Request released on Monday. The Summary Justification Materials (R1s, P1s, etc.) are available on Defenselink (left). The Detailed Justication Materials (R2s) will be available in a…
Jeffrey can write the substance today. I’ve been busy. I just noticed this exchange between the SecState and Kerry during Rice’s 18 January confirmation hearing: Context: Rice and Kerry were discussing the role of “interfaith efforts” in U.S. public diplomacy.…
Bill Broad has an article in the New York Times about the Reliable Replacement Warhead program: Worried that the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be…
The Defense Department will strongly support Administration requests for nuclear weapons initiatives like the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), reports Ian Hoffman in the Oakland Tribune (via John Fleck): [A]s the administration revives [new nuclear-weapons initiatives] Monday in the president’s…
Secretary Rumsfeld has signed a memorandum designating the Commander, US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) as the “lead combatant commander for integrating and synchronizing DOD in combatting WMD.” Choosing STRATCOM reflects a certain emphasis on preventive military action to combat the spread…
The Arms Control Association posted the prepared remarks by Representative David Hobson (right) from lunch on Friday. Dave Ruppe summarizes of what he called a “scathing speech” in Global Security Newswire. One thing I would add to Dave’s excellent coverage—and…
