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My article about the Chinese nuclear force—“The Ambiguous Arsenal”—is available in the May/June 2005 issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. The Table of Contents accurately summarizes the larger article: Analysts tend to grossly exaggerate China’s nuclear arsenal, thanks to…
The IAEA Board of Governors will hold a closed-door meeting on 27 April 2005 to decide whether Mohamed ElBaradei will recieve a third term as IAEA Director General. ElBaradei’s supporters are pushing for a meeting before Bob Joseph can be confirmed as John Bolton’s successor, but most observers expect the 27 April meeting will simply defer a decision on ElBaradeis future until June.
Steve Rademaker, at the Arms Control Association, whined that arms control advocates treat the Bush Administration unfairly when it comes to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP): And particularly with regard to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, I have to…
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could make Caligula (right) blush. Jason Sherman of Inside Defense reports that Undersecretary of Defense Michael Wynne has signed the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Defense Science Board Nuclear Capabilities Task Force. I notice…
I wrote about this around a month ago, but thought I’d raise the issue again. Why didn’t the SFRC ask about Bolton’s role in composing the December 2002 State Department fact sheet that stated—for the first time—that Iraq had tried…
Reuters reports: Russia is likely to delay shipments of enriched uranium fuel to Iran to start up a Russian-built atomic power plant there until the autumn, a source in the Russian nuclear authority said on Monday. [snip] At the time…
Has any Senate hearing witness ever before used the phrase “ream him a new one?” Sweet. Amazing what passes for good news these days.
John Fleck has an article on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program in the Albuquerque Journal. John makes some headway in attempting to chart the various ratonales for the program, which has its origins in a compromise between Senator Pete Domenici…
Olivier Minkwitz of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in German) dowloaded all the Joint Staff draft documents. He used Firefox’s downLoadThemnAll plugin, which is yet another reason to defect from MS in the browser wars.…
The anonymous “Mr. Smith” from the Bolton hearings, if I understand Senators Kerry and Lugar correctly, is Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America since June 2000. Here is Armstrong’s bio from an archived copy of the NIC website…
