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Larry Niksch (right) from CRS recently published an interesting summary of the relevant intel in the Chosun Ilbo. Niksch mentions a pair of 1993 Russian intel reports that point toward a North Korean HEU program: There are also assessments from…
Check out the Export Control Blog maintained by Scott Gearity, an export compliance consultant and owner/founder of Gearity Consulting Group. His coverage of the EU’s deliberations over the arms embargo on China has been first rate—even if I find his…
These UF6 containers are from Hungary. Remember that allegation that North Korea sold Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) to Libya? Remember how the IAEA attempted to reproduce the results, finding the evidence inconclusive? Yeah, well, it turns out that the evidence was…
The National Defense Strategy, released last week, strongly implies that international fora threaten to US security: Our strength as a nation-state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, using international fora, judicial processes…
I am in Geneva, attending a conference entitled Safeguarding Space Security: Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space. Blogging could be interesting or nonexistent.
The Washington Post reports that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz was fed a forged “Defense Intelligence Agency” document claiming that military analyst and Code Names author Bill Arkin was an Iraqi spy. In the course of following up the story,…
Walter Pincus penned a story on the Common Aero Vehicle in the Washington Post the other day. The gist was: The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from…
Bear with me for a minute. Go to the DOD Comptroller’s FY 2006 PBR website, click “Defense_Wide Budget Documentation” and mouse over “RDT&E.” You are now looking at the detailed summaries (R2s if you know the lingo) from the President’s…
You’ve likely noticed that the office of Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a letter describing State Department efforts to “conceal unclassified information about the role of John Bolton … in the creation of a [December 2002] fact sheet distributed to…
Hands up! Participants celebrate. Reuters reports on Expedition Trophy 2005—a 15,000 km Murmansk to Vladivostok road rally through the Siberian wilderness: Another team, called Severny Dozor (the North Watch) and made up of Russians and Americans in two Chevrolet trucks,…
