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I am off to Beijing for about a month, initially to attend a CISSM Workshop at Tsinghua University (清华大学) and then, eventually, deliver two lectures at Tsinghua’s Arms Control Seminar In the meantime, I leave you with a little Nelson…
Gullible isn’t exactly the word that comes to mind … Michael Katz-Hyman responds to an op-ed by Jim Oberg in USA Today. (I don’t see the letter on-line) Oberg argues that most space weapons plans are unrealistic, but then blames…
The Reliable Replacement Warhead program is either: A nonproliferation friendly alternative to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), or A Trojan Horse bearing a return to nuclear testing. This blog has suggested both possibilities Whether the RRW is good or…
Canadians are not totally against defense. Maybe. Two months ago, CBC reported two senior Raytheon employees skulking around the Happy Valley-Goose Bay area in Labrador. … senior officials from the Raytheon Company travelled to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, on a…
Pavel Podvig asked a while back about some numbers I used regarding the Ukrainian Kh-55 cruise missiles that ended up in Iran and China. I wrote: … the [missile] smugglers forged documents naming Russia as the missiles’ destination. This is…
IAEA Deputy Director for Safeguards Pierre Goldschmidt delivered a confidential report to the IAEA Board of Governors today. Agence France Presse obtained a draft. Goldschmidt updated the Board on a long-running dispute. In 2003, Iran admitted to reprocessing small amounts…
Blogging from the Aspen Wye River Conference Center today. As expected Mohamed ElBaradei won approval for an over-precendented third term as IAEA Director-General. The US continues last week’s spin that the failure to oust ElBaradei is a victory, arguing the…
Arms Control Wonk.com has obtained the full text of the Final Report of the Missile Defense Agency’s Independent Review Team (IRT), first reported by Bradley Graham in the Washington Post. Graham, however, missed the scoop—the IRT perversely recommends reducing future…
One of the “failures” Gertz pinned on the IC yesterday was the “deployment of a new [Chinese] attack submarine known as the Yuan class that was missed by U.S. intelligence until photos of the submarine appeared on the Internet.” Gertz…
San Antonio Express-News staff writer Jeorge Zarazua got a chance to climb around the Missile Defense Agency’s gigantic Sea-based X-band Radar (SBX)—a missile defense radar mounted on a self-propelled oil-drilling rig. The SBX is larger than a football field, which…
