344 posts
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…
Hey, you remember Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir? The guy President Bush called the Khan network’s chief financial officer and money launderer? The guy described as a creepy little puke with a man-crush on AQ Khan, tooling around Dubai in a…
I have often wondered, what kind of intelligence capabilities would we need to know whether the Iranians were hiding a nuclear weapons program? Now, eureka. Clearly, we need spy squirrels. Even those cunning Brits are doing it. Thank you NBC…
Update: Here is the indictment. Gee, first we had the Los Alamos Meth Lab case, then the Sandia Stalker, and now Oak Ridge has A. Q. Oakley. NNSA should have its own episode of Cops. Roy Lynn Oakley, a Bechtel…
A. Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb, or B. Sandia’s Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory receives green building certification.
Hans Kristensen is getting a solid, well-deserved round of credit for spotting China’s new ballistic missile subarmine—the Jin class or Type 094 SSBN—sitting along side a dock in Google Earth. (Here is a .kmz file) It looks like a positive…
