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The Carnegie people were kind enough to ask Jeffrey and me to blog during their recent Nonproliferation Conference. Jeffrey Comforts Paul So my first ACW post in a while is to inform readers that I F’d up two posts. I’ve…
Steve Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists have been suing for years to force the USG declassify aggregate intelligence budget data. The CIA has long responded that such information could cause serious damage to national security and compromise intelligence…
In earlier posts, I wondered if the Bush Administration was capable of reaching an agreement with North Korea. It might just be that any agreement is going to take a little, um, initiative on the part of US Assistant Secretary…
Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, gave the luncheon address here at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference. He actually described the US decision to sink the BWC draft protocol as “an act of leadership more…
Joe Cirincione has asked me to blog the 2005 Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference along with Hans Kristensen, Pavel Podvig and Paul Kerr. The Nonproliferation Conference is always an interesting experience for me because I tend to think the nonproliferation community overstates…
Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire got ahold of a letter from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to an undisclosed member of Congress. Dave reports that the letter claims NNSA will simply continue to develop the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator…
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan announced that Six Party Talks will resume in November 9. Paul has a must read summary of the issues facing the talks in Arms Control Today. ACT makes an art of “burying the lede”…
CISSM is hosting Alexei Arbatov, Senior Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss his paper (with co-author Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, Ret.) on Revising Nuclear Deterrence. Among other things, Arbatov was deputy chair of the defense…
One of the persistent problems with the intelligence community (and its critics) is a form of selection bias—some of the folks who take an interest in intelligence matters do so because they’ve seen one to many James Bond movies. Even…
Dawn Stover of Popular Science obtained this image through the Freedom of Information Act. The image, taken by the XSS-11 microsatellite, shows the upper stage of the Minotaur 1 that carried the microsatellite into orbit. If you are interested, here…
