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Steve Rademaker, at the Arms Control Association, whined that arms control advocates treat the Bush Administration unfairly when it comes to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP): And particularly with regard to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, I have to…
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could make Caligula (right) blush. Jason Sherman of Inside Defense reports that Undersecretary of Defense Michael Wynne has signed the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Defense Science Board Nuclear Capabilities Task Force. I notice…
I wrote about this around a month ago, but thought I’d raise the issue again. Why didn’t the SFRC ask about Bolton’s role in composing the December 2002 State Department fact sheet that stated—for the first time—that Iraq had tried…
Reuters reports: Russia is likely to delay shipments of enriched uranium fuel to Iran to start up a Russian-built atomic power plant there until the autumn, a source in the Russian nuclear authority said on Monday. [snip] At the time…
Has any Senate hearing witness ever before used the phrase “ream him a new one?” Sweet. Amazing what passes for good news these days.
John Fleck has an article on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program in the Albuquerque Journal. John makes some headway in attempting to chart the various ratonales for the program, which has its origins in a compromise between Senator Pete Domenici…
Olivier Minkwitz of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in German) dowloaded all the Joint Staff draft documents. He used Firefox’s downLoadThemnAll plugin, which is yet another reason to defect from MS in the browser wars.…
The anonymous “Mr. Smith” from the Bolton hearings, if I understand Senators Kerry and Lugar correctly, is Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America since June 2000. Here is Armstrong’s bio from an archived copy of the NIC website…
Spaceflight Now has a longer article on the XSS-11, which the Air Force successfully launched today at 9:35 am EDT. Colonel Richard White, commander of Space and Missile System Center’s Detachment 12, stated “We can say categorically, there’s nothing that…
One of the Senators (Hegel, I think) asked Bolton a few minutes ago during the SFRC hearing why the United States didn’t listen to UNMOVIC and the IAEA when they said Iraq didn’t have WMD. During the course of his…
