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Remember when I blogged, back in January 2006, that “the Bush Administration now plans to keep multiple nuclear warheads on some of our ICBMs …”? Turns out — in another bit of good reporting that I recently missed — Elaine…
AS Hill says North Korea will submit in days its declaration of activities: I think they will be providing a declaration to the chair of the six parties, that is to the Chinese. And that will be addressed in the…
If that headline makes sense to you, welcome home. If not, it means that the Appropriations Conference committee agreed to provide $15 million in paper studies funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead, according to a press release from Senator Feinstein’s…
I am about halfway through Richard Rhodes’ new book, Arsenals of Folly. I am enjoying it tremendously. My favorite moment, though, comes in the discussion of overkill in US nuclear strategy: Robert McNamara, for example, visited the Omaha offices of…
Phillip Taubman recently had a masterful account of the death of the Future Imagery Architecture in the New York Times. Given the myriad myriad engineering and managerial disasters, the demise of FIA was probably overdetermined. If I had to pick…
By the way, this whole Kitty Hawk visit fiasco just breaks my heart. Holding aside the bureaucratic bungling that led China to approve, then cancel, and then — too late — finally permit the Kitty Hawk to visit Hong Kong…
As many of you know, I am a sucker for nuclear tourism. This summer, while at Los Alamos, I got a chance to see the“High Bay” building (above) — where the “Fat Man” implosion device was assembled. Los Alamos National…
I am starting a category of arms control wonk public service announcements. Today’s comes from Joel Wit, who is looking for stories from the Cold War: I am starting an archive of reminiscences about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear confrontation during the…
Apparently Space News — I haven’t seen a copy yet — has a write up of Gregory and my talk, with a very misleading headline: Upcoming story in Space News: Nov. 19, 2007 issue SCHOLARS: NO PROOF CHINESE A-SAT TEST…
Sanger and Broad definitively answer the question of whether the US shared Permissive Action Link technology with the Pakistanis (no): The American program was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Bush administration debated whether to share with…
