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Underground facility at Hagap, once thought an HE testing site. Was Lowell Jacoby correct about North Korea being able to mate a miniaturized nuclear warhead on a Taepo Dong 2? Probably not without Pyongyang testing both. The current CIA estimate…
The Washington Post has published my letter objecting to Edward Cody’s description of China’s nuclear capability. Regular readers will recall my intemperate response to what I believed was the Post’s refusal to run the letter. So, no hard feelings. I…
Yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) asked the Director of Defense Intelligence (DIA) Agency Admiral Lowell Jacoby whether or not “North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device?” Admiral Jacoby replied: “My assessment is that…
As expected, the IAEA met on 27 April 2005 and deferred until June a decision on electing Mohamed ElBaradei to a third term as IAEA Director-General. One diplomat described support for ElBaradei as increasing: Support increased for ElBaradei, said one…
John Steinbruner argues that John Bolton should be denied confirmation because Bush Administration officials “initiated war against Iraq on the basis of an indictment that … was reasonably known to be false at the time. Bolton is not the most culpable of the officials that did that,” John argues, “but he is among the more flamboyant. If accountability first descends upon him he will have nothing to complain about.”
Headlines in the Washington Post and Times depict polar opposite readings of the Duelfer Report’s passages concerning the possibility that Iraq’s WMD were transfered to Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
NASA appoints several missile defense avocates—including Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter— to an advisory panel on “Exploration Systems.” NASA may be called on the provide support for missile defense missions.
Just noticed this gem in the WMD Commission report RE: Libya’s BW program: That being said, it should be noted that there are few distinguishing characteristics that enable the identification of chemical or biological facilities through imagery or other technical…
Is anybody else noticing the buzz around conventionally-armed ICBMs? Lance Lord told a National Defense University Foundation Congressional breakfast seminar that he was exploring “future uses” for ICBMs and called for “changing the professional mind-set.” The conventionally-armed ICBM debate started…
At the beginning of the month I wrote a post about a New York Times article which detailed some of the intelligence reportedly indicating that North Korea sold UF6 to Libya. Specifically, the Times wrote: More recently, United States officials…
