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Yeah, so I’ve been wondering (more) about the reports that North Korea was developing a new IRBM based on the Soviet SS-N-6. Now Asahi Shimbun reports (full text in comments) that “North Korea unveiled the new missile loaded on a…
I was contemplating a new section called “Sunday Tenet Blogging” where I patiently comb through Tenet’s memoir, picking our interesting chapters or stories for scrutiny. Yesterday was supposed to deal with his account of the disarmament of Libya … at…
Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), chair of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, has inserted language into the FY2008 Authorization Bill creating a Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. Congresswoman Tauscher said the Commission will “create a public discussion about…
In January, David Albright and Paul Brannan released satellite images demonstrating that Pakistan had resumed construction at a facility near Pakistan’s Chasma reactor. The facility is basically a set of empty buildings, but the story is how they came to…
In mid-April I attended the Nuclear National Dialogue in Moscow, a conference sponsored by Green Cross, Global Green, Rosatom, and others. I have few good details to report, but there was one presentation that may be interesting to folks who…
And, oh, by the way, Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangos.” President Bush, quipping about the trade deal during the March 2006 press conference with Indian PM Singh annoucning additional measures in the…
I just completed an interview with Bruce Tartar—former Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chair of the AAAS panel of the Reliable Replacement Warhead—for a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. You’ll have to wait for it to come out,…
Jack Abramoff is a pimp compared the University of California/Bechtel team that just won another contract to manage a national laboratory. This time its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, birthplace of the Calutron.
Seismologist Paul Richards teaches a course on Weapons of Mass Destruction at Columbia, during which he shows this amazing interview with a 1980s Richard Perle. Perle—then Assistant Secretary of Defense and well on his way toward earning the moniker “Prince…
We have discussed quite a few times now the possibility of Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, as well as a related issue of Russia’s response to proposed U.S. missile interceptors in Europe. (Feb 26, 2007, Feb…
