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2007

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Size Matters

I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office…

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The Incredible Shrinking HEU Program

So, Joe DeTrani and Chris Hill admit that the intel on North Korea’s enrichment program is sketchy and all hell breaks loose … (Read the full text of their testimonies). Giacomo, Sanger and Broad, Kessler, and Landay all have stories.…

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DOE Announcement on RRW Today

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Department of Energy plans to announce the reliable replacement warhead contract today: The Energy Department will announce today a contract to develop the nation’s first new hydrogen bomb in two decades, involving a…

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D Feith On The Web

D Feith has, I shit you not, his very own website. Here’s a money quote: Doug Feith is a patriot. I have watched this man for four years. He cares only about what is best for the United States. More…

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Miss Atom Vote!

It is time. The voting has started. (Read about the Miss Atom contest – and our plan – in my prior post.) We will be taking nominations for our ACW pick for the next few days. Comment away. In an…

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Iran's Scud Stunt

Noah Shachtman has a sweet new blog over at Wired called, Danger Room. Haninah Levine, science fellow at the Center for Defense Information, weighs in on Iran’s so-called “space launch.” With a little help from the Union of Concerned Scientists’…

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Not So Peaceful Skies: More INF Concerns

On February 23, Russia celebrated Fatherland Defender Day. I heard many toasts ending with “za mirnoe nebo” or to the peaceful skies. Seems like a great opportunity to again call attention to Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) issues, which I…

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Is the Laptop of Death Bogus?

Turns out some IAEA officials think the purloined laptop that the US has been shopping as evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program is a fake, at least in part because all the files are in English. The laptop’s contents…

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Ostendorff to NNSA

The White House is nominating Bill Ostendorff to be Principal Deputy Administrator at NNSA: The President intends to nominate William Charles Ostendorff, of Virginia, to be Principal Deputy Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Ostendorff currently serves as…