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Well, well, well. It appears that Syria’s box-on-the-Euphrates is at least four years old and was spotted by US intelligence, which drew less dire conclusions: A senior American intelligence official said yesterday that American analysts had looked carefully at the…
Randy Forsberg, the founder of the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I met her once. She was really great. In this interview — from the documentary, War and…
Chris Nelson is now convinced of the reactor story, based in part on Chris Hill’s refusal to confirm or deny in Congressional testimony. … a former directly involved official concluded, “today Hill said he couldn’t say, or not. That says…
Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North…
Susan Crabtree in The Hill reports that John Bolton is lobbying against the North Korea deal: Other top Bush administration officials, such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have criticized Bush since leaving office. But they have refrained from meeting…
ABC’s Martha Raddatz has some detail about the Syrian nuclear facility that suggests to me that she and her sources are confused about nuclear reactors: But the hardest evidence of all was the photographs. The official described the pictures as…
I’ve acquired a copy of the one-page Bullet Background Paper On Minot-Barksdale Weapons Transfer Incident distributed by the Air Force. The paper lists “five procedural errors that led to the incident:” First, Airmen assigned to the Minot weapons storage area…
So, I’ve been keeping my powder dry on this story by Sanger and Mazzetti claiming that Israel struck “a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel …”…
Senator Clinton, on the campaign trail, takes nuclear weapons back off the table with regard to Iran and pledges to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons: Question 1: I’m five months pregnant and really appreciate what you had to…
Just finished my talk on China’s nuclear forces at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) conference on “P-5 Nuclear Doctrines and Article VI.” I am sitting two chairs from Bill Perry, for whom Stanford is throwing an…
