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Too many articles about Chinese espionage are about as sophisticated as the plot of a Hong Kong action flick. At least John Woo made stuff blow up. Somebody at the Wall Street Journal saw Hard Boiled one too many times.…
I am just now getting the chance to write some comments about Peter Scoblic’s TNR article about nuclear proliferation. [full disclosure: Peter was the editor of Arms Control Today when I first began working at ACA.] These are just some…
Iranian news agencies are really showing off the Uranium Conversion Facility at Esfahan (Isfahan), where Iran has resumed fuel cycle activities. The Fars news agency photographs Iran’s uranium conversion facility, inside and out. Check it out. Conservative daily Keyhan (full…
As previously rumored here at ACW, conservative Ali Larijani will replace Hasan Rowhani (Rohani) as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC)—becoming Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator. Larijani has had some very tough things to say about EU-Iran negotiations. Update:…
Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility is the weak point in Iran’s nuclear fuel cycle. That was a victory for US nonproliferation policy under, gasp, the Clinton Administration. The new NIE on Iran’s nuclear program contains a pair of substantive revelations. Dafna…
I have previously noted Wade Boese’s article explaining that, despite previous Bush administration claims, the BBC China interdiction was not a PSI operation. For whatever reason, SecState Rice decided around that time to argue that the “PSI provided the framework…
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…
