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A big story in a tiny little newspaper today. The forthcoming Quadrennial Defense Review may recommend that the Air Force convert 50 Minuteman III ICBMs to a conventional role, relocating the missiles to Vandenberg AFB in CA from their current…
The Replacements – great 80s band. (copyright, Daniel Corrigan) The Reliable Replacement Warhead program is hot, very hot. It is all things to all people. Very pliable, as it were. A Hill staffer told me, in fact, that the Department…
As most of you probably know, the recently-announced US-India agreement to pursue nuclear cooperation still has some obstacles to overcome in Congress. So I thought I’d provide some information from people who are way smarter than I am on this…
Hiroshima, afterwards, and the “atomic dome” The 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an appropriate time to review the status of nuclear weapons in the world. It’s okay, it’s quite bad, and it’s unbelievably insane. It’s okay, in that…
The Bush Adminstration has said, time and time again, that the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, or SORT, more commonly known as the Moscow Treaty, shows that relations with Russia are just fine. This came up, naturally, in the context of…
Sorry for the light blogging this week. So, the deal is: I am off to Hawaii to marry off a friend. That—and the fact that the lovely other wishes for a tranquil vacation in Hawaii—conspires to deprive you of my…
Hans Kristensen has pieced together a history of Russian nuclear submarine patrols over 1981-2004: The Russian nuclear submarine force is far less active than during the Cold War. Since 1984, according to information obtained from the U.S. Navy, the annual…
Dafna Linzer has a long article in the Washington Post describing a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) placing an Iranian bomb a decade or so away: A major U.S. intelligence review has projected that Iran is about a decade away…
