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Joseph DeTrani (third from right) participates in a seminar organized by the Chosun Ilbo and CSIS. Spokespersons at the White House and US Embassy, Tokyo confirm “working-level contacts” between US officials and the DPRK mission at the United Nations. Asahi…
I’ll get my .02 in. The point of the discussion RE: the Niger fiasco is that Bolton was cherry-picking intelligence. He ignored INR’s conclusions on this matter because he wanted to believe something different. The circus tent known as NRO…
Gordon Mitchell argues that John Bolton’s handling of intelligence in the Niger Uranium intelligence should preclude his confirmation as Ambassador to the United Nations: Impeccably accurate IC reporting won’t matter a whit if political operatives ignore official intelligence reports and…
Where the magic happens: Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan. Dr. Arms Control Wonk will attenting the fourth NPRI symposium, Full Spectrum Dominance: The Impending Weaponization of Space, at Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia today and tomorrow. During this period, Iran…
I’ve been waiting for an major news outlet to run a commercial satellite image the suspected North Korean nuclear test site near Kilju (Kilchu). Imagine my surprise when the leading “fake news” outlet The Daily Show with Jon Stewart runs…
The IC split over China’s Lop Nor test site, too. David Sanger details the debate over signs of possible North Korea nuclear test preparations. The key graf casts doubt on his earlier report North Korea had erected a “grandstand”: Last…
I am meeting some friends for drinks tonight (Thursday) at Off The Record, the hotel bar in the Hay-Adams (One Lafayette Square, 16th & H NW) around 6:30. Blog readers are welcome. I promise to minimize the cock jokes.
P1. Hot dogs are better than nothing P2. Nothing is better than steak. C. Therefore, hot dogs are better than steak. Ah, the fallacy of equivocation. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it thus: The fallacy which is committed when a…
ACA Executive Director Daryl Kimball and ACA Research Director Wade Boese respond to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher’s dismissal of an ACA report by Sidney Drell and James Goodby regarding U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces. Asked about Drell and Goodby’s conclusion…
Warren Hoge and David Sanger detect “considerable concern” that Iran will withdraw from the NPT. Perhaps. But there’s some evidence that the Iranians realize they’d be painting a target on themselves if they took such a drastic step.
