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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…
Greetings from Dubai. Were I ever involved in a clandestine proliferation network I’d have meetings here too. The Carnegie Endowment has a nice summary of Gregory and my talk — which is pretty amazing since I ramble and neither of…
Apparently, the much anticipated NIE on Iran’s nuclear programs is coming out any day now. Walter Pincus went over to lunch at the Wilson Center, where McConnell dropped that the NIE will be done by the end of the month:…
Sorry for the light posting — I almost finished a post on whether or not Pakistani nuclear weapons have permissive actions links, but just plain ran out of time. Anyway, I need to strap on my tie, head over to…
A while back, a reader asked me whether or not “suitcase nukes” actually existed. I expressed my skepticism, but deferred to a more knowledgeble colleague. Now, AP’s Katherine Shrader has a very nice, readable deconstruction of the rise and fall…
Since I’ve been blogging talking and talking so much about Curveball and Bob Drogin’s excellent book of the same name, I thought I should link to the excellent document cache posted by our friends at the National Security Archive. The…
Pyongyang gets fried chicken delivery for the first time. AP’s Jaesoon Chang explains: Choi Won-ho, head of a fried chicken franchiser that has about 70 restaurants across South Korea, said Friday he is opening a 50-table restaurant in Pyongyang on…
My diavlog with Jackie Shire from ISIS is on the site. I model that “Get Il” shirt at the beginning of the Nork Segment.
Hans Kristensen has a great catch — a STRATCOM document redacted the names of certain countries now subject to strike planning, but left pictures of their weapons and facilities: The 26-page declassified document, an excerpt from a 123-page STRATCOM briefing…
Bruce Blair disagrees with Ambassador Rocca about “hair trigger” alert: As they have been configured for several decades, their command and early warning systems are geared to launch on warning – firing friendly forces en masse before the anticipated arrival…
