More Chinese Boomer Mania
A loyal reader sends along this happy snap of two Chinese boomers sitting side by side on the dock. (See previous posts here and here.) By the way, my copy of China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force, edited by Andrew S.…
October 2007
29 posts
Albright on Disablement
_The paper is now available at the USIP wesbite._ Most readers inside the Beltway already know that David Albright and Paul Brannan have written a report for USIP entitled Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities. USIP still hasn’t put it on the…
Scheduled Maintenance
The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Additionally, user comments will be disabled for 24 hours or so while we make a transition to a new server (we’re moving from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris for the curious geek…
Michael Allen Tapped for NSC Gig
Al Kamen reports that yet another of Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch” NSC staffers has inherited a good gig as the rats scramble off the sinking ship of state that is the Bush Administration: Arms Control — What, Me Worry? Michael…
Get Il
From The Onion. I’ve already ordered mine.
Bobby Egan on the North Korean Nuclear Test
I did not think it was possible, but Kim Jong Il might not be the most colorful character in the entire saga of US-DPRK relations. For all the Il-iminator’s quirks and foibles, that title clearly belongs Bobby Egan — BBQ…
Mission to Moscow
McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reports that Rice and Gates are headed to Moscow to discuss missile defense deployments in Europe, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and, my favorite, extending the verification provisions of the START treaty: Bush is sending Secretary…
Dimona Lookin all Pretty on Google Earth
After looking at low-res blurs for years, now you can count the cars in the Dimona parking lot. Granted they were probably there a year or two ago, but this is still cool. The latest update of Google Earth has…
Syrian Plutonium?
Jim Hoagland claims a “senior official” says the Israelis struck a “facility … to produce plutonium”: But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may…
Still Scuds
Regular readers know that, following the lead of the estimable Chris Nelson, I am sticking with explanation that what Israeli struck in Syria was a Scud shipment. Now, Laura Rozen helpfully posts 273 words of a 290 word story by…