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2005

456 posts

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Bolton to Replace Libby?

Yeah, you read that correctly. This is my least favorite Washington rumor right now. The Nelson Report cannot confirm it—or the nightmare scenario of Bolton as Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Libby as DepSecDef and Wolfowitz as UN Ambassador.

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CTR Funding Restored and a little Administrivia

A proposal to cut $46 million from Cooperative Threat Reduction programs in the FY 2006 budget has been reversed. CTR will, instead, enjoy a $5 M increase in FY 2005. Or that is what I hear from contractors. [The Boston…

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Bolton Out?

John Bolton appears to be leaving for the private sector now that my old boss, Bob Zoellick, will be nominated as Deputy Secretary of State. (Yes, I worked a bit for Zoellick at CSIS. We didn’t really click, as you…

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NSPD 28: Nuclear Weapons Command, Control, Safety, and Security

I think that I’ve discovered a previously undisclosed National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) relating to nuclear weapons. Moreover, I worry that it lays the groundwork to build new nuclear weapons and resume nuclear testing. The source? National Nuclear Security Agency…

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Hair Trigger in Space

Adam Herbert, a senior editor at AFA Magazine, writes that Air Force Space Command is attempting to install a hair trigger in outer space: Over the years, space essentially has been a militarily benign environment. For that reason, operators had…

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Back From London

I am back from London—where the steadily escalating death toll from the Asian tsunami added a somber note to the festivities. Regular postings will resume tomorrow morning. There will be no end to the ration of crap I am going…