Get Il and Disabled, All At Once
I am doing Bloggingheads with Jackie Shire this morning — I’ll let you know when it is posted. I am wearing my Get Il T-shirt for the occasion. We are going to talk about a lot of things, including the…
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Why'd They Do It?
Gregory Kulacki and I are giving a talk about the Chinese ASAT test at the Carnegie Endowment. Short version: There is no message for us. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you to attend A Different View of China’s…
ACW Readers Rock the Box
If you aren’t reading the comments on my last few Syria posts, you are missing some great contributions by readers including: John Hogan has used satellite images to pin down the construction date of the “Box-on-the-Euphrates” to between 26 May…
Tourist Trips to the Box-on-the-Euphrates
Is the Box-on-the-Euphrates in a remote place? Details like that might seem insignificant, but they are not. Often, it seems to me, intelligence judgments are supported by informal bits of “color” or what you might call the gouge — circumstantial…
Curve Ball
This is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, better known as Curveball, getting down at an Iraqi wedding in 1993. The 60 Minutes segment tonight, if you saw it after the Patriots-Colts game, was a fine introduction to Curveball and that damned wall.…
Hair Trigger Alert
Ambassador Rocca is getting lambasted for stating that US nuclear forces are not on hair trigger alert: It is popular to call for removing nuclear weapons from “hair-trigger alert.” Frankly, in order to take action to comply with this request,…
Syria and Nuclear Weapons, Again
Well, well, well. It appears that Syria’s box-on-the-Euphrates is at least four years old and was spotted by US intelligence, which drew less dire conclusions: A senior American intelligence official said yesterday that American analysts had looked carefully at the…
In Memoriam, Randall Forsberg
Randy Forsberg, the founder of the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I met her once. She was really great. In this interview — from the documentary, War and…
Syria Tidbits
Chris Nelson is now convinced of the reactor story, based in part on Chris Hill’s refusal to confirm or deny in Congressional testimony. … a former directly involved official concluded, “today Hill said he couldn’t say, or not. That says…
Syria Dumps the Evidence
Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North…