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Behold, the second installment of the series on China’s SSBNs. This took a while, mainly because I wanted to reread Tom Stefanick’s Strategic Antisubmarine Warfare and Naval Strategy. It’s a classic. Anyway, the bottom line is that I doubt China’s…
Apparently the State Department fact sheet on the US-India 123 Agreement doesn’t mention prior consent to reprocess spent fuel, although the Indian fact sheet does. Siddharth Varadarajan explains: But it is in the U.S. and Indian descriptions of what the…
I have some more information on the “follow-on white paper” to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW—the cabinet level statement on nuclear policy signed by Bodman, Gates and Rice.…
Update: Oh yeah, if any readers in the Los Alamos area would like to grab a cocktail on Friday evening, e-mail me! Speaking of fancy conferences, I am attending one of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues conferences. Harold Agnew…
T&D Happy Hour is happening on Thursday August 2. The usual: Big Hunt, upstairs, 6pm and on. We will be discussing pressing issues of national security, such as my personal favorite topics: world leaders on personal transport devices, Russian poisonings,…
Maybe this “talking to other countries” thing isn’t such a good idea after all. After four days of talks with India over the 123 Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the White House intervenes. The result? Bottomsecretary Nick Burns gives the Indians advance…
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice submitted a three-page joint statement to Congress entitled Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Fully Fund…
I just love this illustration, by Istvan Banyai, that accompanied Keir Lieber and Daryl Press’ article in The Atlantic. This is the first of a three part series on issues surrounding China’s newest ballistic missile submarine. The other posts will…
The New York Times has a nice write-up of New America’s upcoming leadership transition to Steve Coll, including a rather pleasant reference to my initiative on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation: Steve Coll, whose résumé as a journalist includes two Pulitzer…
Some folks are suggesting that we should go easy on Roy Lee Oakley—the inept contract worker attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barriers to an FBI agent posing as a French embassy employee—on the grounds that gaseous diffusion…
