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Rod Barton (right) is an Australian microbiologist who served on the Iraq Survey Group (click here for Charlie Duelfer’s letter of gratitude). Barton has given an interview to an Australian television program, Four Corners, about his time on the ISG.…
It’s late, so I thought I’d take aim at this barrel of fish. Someone asked a question at the ACA meeting about how, given the Iraq intel debacle, the US can build a credible case regarding Iran and North Korea’s…
In the popular television program Sex and the City, Trey MacDougal, the husband of a principal character, has a little problem, um, performing under pressure. The Missile Defense Agency’s own Trey, Henry “Trey” Obering III, seems to be having a…
Jon Wolfstahl has an analysis of recent reports indicating that North Korea shipped UF6 to Libya. He covers a lot of the same issues that I did here, but includes a sentence which speaks to an important question: how can…
The Detroit Free-Press has a helpful FAQ on Iran and North Korea with one significant factual error: Q: Is the United States threatened by a North Korean weapon? A: Yes. North Korea has missiles that could hit Alaska and Hawaii.…
The National Security Presidential Directive process is essential to making and implementing foreign policy. Every Administration since the National Security Act of 1947 has made extensive use of such documents to coordinate and implement policy directives, as is evident for…
Gravity Bombs of a different design, (c), Shambroom. Hans Kristensen concludes that the United States keeps 480 nuclear weapons at air bases in Europe, about twice the previous estimate of outside analysts (including Hans himself). The smoking gun is Presidential…
China’s Central Military Commission Xiong Guangkai Ain’t On It … A little low hanging fruit this morning. Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough report: Pentagon officials said Chinese Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Xiong Guangkai is retiring. Gen. Xiong … is…
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement to the Korean Central News Agency declaring North Korea’s nuclear status: We had already taken the resolute action of pulling out of the NPT and have manufactured nukes for self-defence…
They say they got ‘em. Do they? Why did they choose to share this information? Film at 11. Or blog post at like … later.
