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I just completed an interview with Bruce Tartar—former Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and chair of the AAAS panel of the Reliable Replacement Warhead—for a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin. You’ll have to wait for it to come out,…
Jack Abramoff is a pimp compared the University of California/Bechtel team that just won another contract to manage a national laboratory. This time its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, birthplace of the Calutron.
Seismologist Paul Richards teaches a course on Weapons of Mass Destruction at Columbia, during which he shows this amazing interview with a 1980s Richard Perle. Perle—then Assistant Secretary of Defense and well on his way toward earning the moniker “Prince…
We have discussed quite a few times now the possibility of Russia’s withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, as well as a related issue of Russia’s response to proposed U.S. missile interceptors in Europe. (Feb 26, 2007, Feb…
It is fun to read about powerful people, pulling the strings, making things happen, while keeping out of the limelight. Victor Cha for example, who does not say much but has been getting some headline billing in the press. I…
Aegis BMD is probably the one well-run missile defense program, one with both a feasible mission and a reasonable amount of technical risk. So, after a little trouble with their last flight test, I am happy to see that the…
Wow. The Iranians may have arrested Hossein Mousavian for “connections and exchange of information with foreign elements.” Paul has an early summary of the press reporting at Total Wonkerr. Will be interesting talk over beers at the Big Hunt.
Just a reminder that Noah and I are going to be at the Big Hunt tonight, starting at 7: For a couple of nerds, Arms Control Wonk Jeffrey Lewis and have managed to host some pretty ragin’ parties. The next…
I’ve been remiss in posting about the scandal linking the Indian Embassy in Washington to alleged efforts by a company called Cirrus USA to subvert US export control laws in support of India’s missile and aircraft programs. (Good coverage in…
So, I am reading my copy of George Tenet’s At the Center of the Storm. I turn to the account of the strike on Dora Farm first. Tenet offers the standard account—embellished by an odd new detail here, an occasional…
