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As expected, North Korea missed the deadline for “providing a complete and correct declaration of its nuclear programs.” I say “as expected” in part because this is what Chris Hill told Congress in a closed briefing, according to Chris Nelson,…
Hey, remember that front page Washington Times story by Bill Gertz reporting that “China’s intelligence service gained access to a secret National Security Agency listening post in Hawaii through a Chinese-language translation service”? Well, according to Chris Nelson, DoD officials…
Shortly before I left for the holidays, Congressional Appropriators provided “no funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)” pending “a new strategic nuclear deterrent mission assessment for the 21st century.” The bottom line — no new warheads without a new…
Steven Aftergood passes along a little humor from the NORKs, via Xinhua News Agency: “DPRK Slams U.S. Senator’s Hardline Remarks” — Xinhua headline Xinhua Wednesday, December 19, 2007 T09:26:37Z PYONGYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
The Arms Control Association is hosting a contest for the “Arms Control Person of the Year.” Go to http://survey.armscontrol.org/index.php?sid=5 to vote or suggest another candidate worthy of mention and why. And the nominees are …. Jonas Gahr Støre, Foreign Minister…
The White House has announced what it calls a “significant” reduction in the 2012 stockpile — later clarified to be 15 percent. Although the stockpile size is classified, the announcement suggests the total size will drop from “roughly” a quarter…
I figured that Senator John Ensign’s (R-Nev) blatant attempt to politicize the Iran NIE would go nowhere, but my sources on the Hill tell me his effort is still very much alive. Ensign’s goal is to write the commission into…
Janne Nolan — author of the pretty amazing An Elusive Consensus — is giving a talk on the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, tomorrow (Tuesday), at a Security for a New Century event on the Hill. I am joining her, which…
If you followed the arrest of the Roy Lee Oakley — the Oak Ridge contractor who took a couple of broken sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier home and tried to sell them rather ineptly to France (no, I can’t…
Avi Dichter, Israel’s public security minister, said today that the Iran NIE could result in another Yom Kippur War. Dichter is referring to the surprise 1973 attack on Israel led by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur, the most important…
