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The President intends to nominate self-described “Americanist” John Bolton to be its Ambassador to the UN. Bolton is an outright xenophobe, as evidenced by this little speech he gave at a conference entitled, Trends in Global Governance: Do They Threaten…
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (right) has told Voice of America that Pakistan held the components for a nuclear device during her tenure, but chose not to assemble them until the May 1998 nuclear tests. When I became Prime…
The 2004 Annual Report to Congress on the Safety and Security of Russian Nuclear Facilities and Military Forces is now available on the NIC website.
Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration Linton Brooks testified yesterday on Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). Brooks admitted RNEP will produce a huge amount of fallout: TAUSCHER: “Is there any way an RNEP of any size that we would…
IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt’s Statement to the Board of Governors confirms an account, which first appeared in The Washington Post, that the A.Q. Khan network offered Iran assistance with its centrifuge program in 1987. Goldschmidt told the Board…
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein have an article, Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, in The Washington Quarterly that has previously upublished information about the Chinese nuclear weapons design provided to Libya by the Khan network: The…
Inside Defense has the full text of the Defense Science Board’s Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Patriot System Performance (Not yet available from the DSB website). The report focuses on three fratricide incidents—including the death of…
For people with virtually no sense of fashion when it comes to clothing, Washington “defense intellectuals” are suprisingly adept at picking up on the latest fashions when it comes to ideas. One of the biggest intellectual fads in recent years…
The Associated Press reports that, “after blocking discussions for nearly two years, the United States has quietly started low-key talks on ending the work of U.N. inspectors” in Iraq. The Iraqi government wants UNMOVIC shut down, in part to regain…
The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences will present an online course to educate life scientists about national security, international affairs, and biological-weapons control. Although designed to engage life scientists, the course is designed to be accessible to non-scientists,…
