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Kenneth Pollack told the Jewish Telegraph Agency (via Josh Marshal) that he is one of two US government officials (USGO-1) mentioned in the indictment against former Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. The relevant paragraph reads: On or about…
The editors of Foreign Policy magazine “look back at at some of the persons, places and things that mattered most … and a few that never lived up to their billing.” The Number One Disappointment of the last 35 years?…
I was really puzzled by this remark in Dafna Linzer’s WaPo story linking enriched uranium on Iranian centrifuges to contaminated Pakistani equipment, not a clandestine nuclear weapons program: “The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with…
Kyodo interviewed Pakistani CEO Perverz Musharraf, who confirmed that AQ Khan supplied North Korea with centrifuges and components. Musharraf also allowed the Khan may have provided uranium hexafluoride: Asked to comment on reports that Pakistan has told Japanese government officials…
Dafna Linzer reports the IAEA empaneled an international group of scientists to confirm that traces of highly enriched uranium in Iran originated with contaminated centrifuge components obtained through the AQ Khan network: Scientists from the United States, France, Japan, Britain…
How do you do, Joe? Find the room comfortable, do you? No complaints? In May, the Washington AeroSpace Briefing reported that MDA Director Trey Obering “appeared to imply that a controversial kill vehicle payload [for the Near Field Infra Red…
During last year’s budget process, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) objected to “a particular major funding acquisition program that I believe is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security.” Rockefeller was criticizing a “stealth” satellite named Misty, which…
Iowa State students taking Aerospace Engineering 462: Design of Aerospace Systems had a novel idea for a course project: Design an air launched anti-satellite weapon. What is needed by the Air Force is a new and inexpensive design that improves…
From what I am being told, the UNSC will not make a decision about UNMOVIC’s future during its upcoming meeting. Whether or not to keep UNMOVIC or a similar organization has been a matter of debate for quite a while…
Several loyal readers have drawn my attention to a heretofore undetected nuclear threat, as reported by The Onion: U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON, DC—A report released Monday by the Defense Intelligence Agency suggests that there is reason…
