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Susan Crabtree in The Hill reports that John Bolton is lobbying against the North Korea deal: Other top Bush administration officials, such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have criticized Bush since leaving office. But they have refrained from meeting…
ABC’s Martha Raddatz has some detail about the Syrian nuclear facility that suggests to me that she and her sources are confused about nuclear reactors: But the hardest evidence of all was the photographs. The official described the pictures as…
I’ve acquired a copy of the one-page Bullet Background Paper On Minot-Barksdale Weapons Transfer Incident distributed by the Air Force. The paper lists “five procedural errors that led to the incident:” First, Airmen assigned to the Minot weapons storage area…
So, I’ve been keeping my powder dry on this story by Sanger and Mazzetti claiming that Israel struck “a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel …”…
Senator Clinton, on the campaign trail, takes nuclear weapons back off the table with regard to Iran and pledges to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons: Question 1: I’m five months pregnant and really appreciate what you had to…
Just finished my talk on China’s nuclear forces at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) conference on “P-5 Nuclear Doctrines and Article VI.” I am sitting two chairs from Bill Perry, for whom Stanford is throwing an…
A loyal reader sends along this happy snap of two Chinese boomers sitting side by side on the dock. (See previous posts here and here.) By the way, my copy of China’s Future Nuclear Submarine Force, edited by Andrew S.…
_The paper is now available at the USIP wesbite._ Most readers inside the Beltway already know that David Albright and Paul Brannan have written a report for USIP entitled Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities. USIP still hasn’t put it on the…
The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Additionally, user comments will be disabled for 24 hours or so while we make a transition to a new server (we’re moving from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris for the curious geek…
Al Kamen reports that yet another of Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch” NSC staffers has inherited a good gig as the rats scramble off the sinking ship of state that is the Bush Administration: Arms Control — What, Me Worry? Michael…
