Feed Has Been Repaired
Okay, dear readers, I think we have managed to repair the feed. Let me know if it is working again. And “Hans Brix, Oh No!” has been moved here.
January 2006
32 posts
STRATCOM Hearts MIRV
Inside Defense has published excerpts from a draft of the Quadrennial Defense Review. The QDR announced that DOD will “reduce the number of deployed Minuteman III ballistic missiles from 500 to 450.” This raises an interesting question—what happens to the…
Hans Brix! Oh No!
Hans Blix rules. Yesterday, during the ACA Annual Meeting, Dr. Hans Blix — Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and fromer head of UNMOVIC — referred to his cameo in Team America: World Police. Actually, he RE-ENACTED THE…
Safeguarding Breeder Reactors
A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped…
Strangers With Candy
I’ve put my first post up in the TPM Cafe, asking whether US & EU diplomacy might usefully exploit divisions within Iranian politics to slow Iran’s nuclear programs. (Update: I’ve added a second post asking what happens if Iran “gets”…
Tunnels at Iran's UCF
Just one addition to Jeffrey’s sweet strike package post. He wrote: Esfahan has another feature, however, that suggests a serious problem. North of the facility, there are a pair of roads that clearly reveal entrances to tunnels within the mountain.…
Iran & The Bomb 3: Strike options
This is third part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). A diverse crowd, including Pat Buchanan’s American Spectator and…
Iran & the Bomb 2: Iran's Missiles
This is second part in a three part series on Iran’s nuclear capabilities that I am writing at the urging of Noah Shachtman from DefenseTech. (Read Part 1). Once upon a time, Persian scientists spent their considerable talents making the…
China Nuclear Weapons Museum
Note: My Iran posts, the second of which will appear later today, are being crossposted at Wampum, home of the Koufax Awards. Next week, Paul and I will be blogging at TPM Cafe. Feel free to submit questions. The Chinese…
Cheney: No Close Relationship Between Iran and al-Qaeda
Really. From a radio interview today: Do you believe there are ties between the Iranian regime and al Qaeda, Mr. Vice President? THE VICE PRESIDENT: I wouldn’t put it in those terms. I think you’ve got to remember that the…