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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has released its Fiscal Year 2006 (FY06) Budget Estimate Overview, complete with descriptive summaries (R2s for those in the know). The R2s provide some answers to our questions: Why did classified MDA spending jump by…
Some readers have suggested the sale of F-16 fighters to Pakistan is irrelevant since Pakistan probably relies on its small inventory of Ghauri ballistic missiles (right) to deliver nuclear weapons. Aircraft, however, are easier to keep on alert than liquid-fueled…
At least some Iranian officials appear somewhat skeptical of the Bush administration’s limited incentives for Tehran to comply with the EU3’s negotiating demands. Senior Iranian negotiator Sirus Naseri told Iranian state television 15 March: As far as America is concerned,…
Steve Clemons has the full text of the letter by 59 former diplomats to Senator Lugar opposing John Bolton’s nomination as Taiwan, er, US Ambassador to the UN.
London, Moscow and Washington have issued a joint statement reaffirming the importance of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the United States, United Kingdom…
Hans Kristensen over at NukeStrat.com noticed what has to be one of the weirdest proposals out of South Asia that I’ve seen a while. General Mirza Aslam Beg—former Pakistan Chief of Army Staff—has penned a couple of op-eds suggesting that…
The Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces has scheduled its hearing on strategic forces and nuclear weapons issues. STRATCOM Commander General James Cartwright will testify, along with NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks The hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m., 4…
You’re thinking: Shit, we have options in North Korea? Wrapping up her tour of Asia, Condi Rice said we do … sort of. Actually, in Tokyo she demanded that North Korea return to the Six-Party Talks, then warned that North…
The Bush Administration has decided to sell Pakistan at least 24 F-16 “Fighting Falcon” aircraft, Reuters reported on Friday. Pakistan has some 32 F-16s from a prior sale in the 1980s (right). A subsequent sale of F-16s was blocked in…
If you haven’t already, check out the Citizens for Global Solutions campaign to Stop Bolton. The website has a video of Bolton losing his shit at a 1994 conference. (download it) Bolton’s confirmation hearing is scheduled for: Thursday, April 7,…
