North Korea Options
You’re thinking: Shit, we have options in North Korea? Wrapping up her tour of Asia, Condi Rice said we do … sort of. Actually, in Tokyo she demanded that North Korea return to the Six-Party Talks, then warned that North…
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F-16s to Pakistan
The Bush Administration has decided to sell Pakistan at least 24 F-16 “Fighting Falcon” aircraft, Reuters reported on Friday. Pakistan has some 32 F-16s from a prior sale in the 1980s (right). A subsequent sale of F-16s was blocked in…
Stop Bolton
If you haven’t already, check out the Citizens for Global Solutions campaign to Stop Bolton. The website has a video of Bolton losing his shit at a 1994 conference. (download it) Bolton’s confirmation hearing is scheduled for: Thursday, April 7,…
More on North Korea HEU
Larry Niksch (right) from CRS recently published an interesting summary of the relevant intel in the Chosun Ilbo. Niksch mentions a pair of 1993 Russian intel reports that point toward a North Korean HEU program: There are also assessments from…
EU Arms Embargo on China
Check out the Export Control Blog maintained by Scott Gearity, an export compliance consultant and owner/founder of Gearity Consulting Group. His coverage of the EU’s deliberations over the arms embargo on China has been first rate—even if I find his…
Did the Bush Administration Lie to Allies about North Korea?
These UF6 containers are from Hungary. Remember that allegation that North Korea sold Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) to Libya? Remember how the IAEA attempted to reproduce the results, finding the evidence inconclusive? Yeah, well, it turns out that the evidence was…
Strategy of the Weak
The National Defense Strategy, released last week, strongly implies that international fora threaten to US security: Our strength as a nation-state will continue to be challenged by those who employ a strategy of the weak, using international fora, judicial processes…
Geneva
I am in Geneva, attending a conference entitled Safeguarding Space Security: Preventing an Arms Race in Outer Space. Blogging could be interesting or nonexistent.
Gertz and Arkin
The Washington Post reports that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz was fed a forged “Defense Intelligence Agency” document claiming that military analyst and Code Names author Bill Arkin was an Iraqi spy. In the course of following up the story,…
Common Aero Vehicle
Walter Pincus penned a story on the Common Aero Vehicle in the Washington Post the other day. The gist was: The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from…