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Erroll Morris is a documentary film-maker — a very good one at that, having directed Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert McNamara. His column, “Zoom,” contains two posts that detail his fascination with a pair of…
Hans Kristensen spotted two Chinese 130 m-long SSBNs, side by side, at Huludao Shipyard in Google Earth. I am very excited to see how the Chinese operate these suckers once they are kitted out and the JL-2 is ready. I…
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) engaged in a long discussion over the classified budget on programs to defend satellites that made some of his colleagues, including Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) very uncomfortable as Senator Kyl pointed out what wasn’t in the…
A few weeks ago I blogged about Russia’s “Father of All Bombs,” a fuel-air bomb they claimed to be the world’s largest non-nuclear weapon. Did the Russians really drop the bomb off a Tu-160 bomber or was the drop a…
Now this is a long-term blow to the RRW and Complex 2030.
. Okay, so although the original press release that NNSA sent out announcing the JASON report was not so hot, the cover letter that NNSA Administrator Tom D’Agostino sent to Congress the same day was much more forthright: The JASON…
John Fleck sends along the original NNSA press release summarizing the Jason study suggesting that the RRW certification plan is inadequate. NNSA — before the unclassified summary leaked — was significantly more upbeat in its press release than after: *NNSA…
Here is the Unclassified Executive Summary of the Jason Report on RRW. As Walter Pincus reported over the weekend (Nuclear Warhead Design Hits Snag) the report basically argues that certification of the design will require more than the current certification…
Chris Hill tells reporters that we are down to the nuts and bolts of a denuclearization agreement. But we are really into the nuts and bolts now of implementing denuclearization, and there are a lot of details that we are…
