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Is anybody else noticing the buzz around conventionally-armed ICBMs? Lance Lord told a National Defense University Foundation Congressional breakfast seminar that he was exploring “future uses” for ICBMs and called for “changing the professional mind-set.” The conventionally-armed ICBM debate started…
At the beginning of the month I wrote a post about a New York Times article which detailed some of the intelligence reportedly indicating that North Korea sold UF6 to Libya. Specifically, the Times wrote: More recently, United States officials…
Newsweek follows up on its October 2004 report that Tony Blair personally requested that John Bolton be removed from negotiations with Libya.
The Lost Angeles Times reports some old news—that a shipment of components for advanced centrifuges, bound for Libya, may have been diverted to an unknown country. Speculation continues about the identity of AQ Khan’s “fourth customer.”
NASA’s DART satellite may have bumped into the MUBLCOM satellite during a proximity operation.
In May 2004, I blogged that the Air Force “exercised an option order for a Minotaur space launch vehicle … to launch a classified payload in 2005.” Given that the Minotaur’s other payloads include XSS-11 and NFIRE, I was pretty…
Condoleeza Rice willfully misrepresents the Agreed Framework in order to argue that the United States is safer with stalled Six Party talks and an unfrozen North Korean plutonium program than the Clinton-era Agreed Framework, which produced a verifiable freeze on North Korea’s plutonium efforts.
North Korea has shut down its 5 MWe reactor at Yongbyon, probably to unload spent fuel rods that will be reprocessed to recover plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Senior North Korean officials recently informed Selig Harrison of the…
The State Department will no longer publish “Patterns of Global Terrorism.” Some officials justified the decision based on methodologocal objetions, but others suggested the statistics were suppressed because they contained bad news about the war on terror. Paul Kerr asks: Which of those explanations sounds more compelling to you?
Bolton’s (in)famous speech about the Cuban offensive BW effort originally “called for international observers of Cuba’s biological facilities.” Of course, these observers don’t exist because Bolton and the Bush Administration sank the BWC verification protocol.
