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Friend of Wonk Marc Schanz reprises the popular “BUFF Blogging” series to ask how changes in the US B-52 fleet will affect nuclear missions and arms control agreements: I realize I haven’t reanimated the popular BUFF Blogging feature in some…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has placed ads in the Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver airports, calling on Senators Obama and McCain to “get serious about reducing the nuclear threat.” Above is a picture of the ad on display in Minneapolis.…
Hey folks! So much missile stuff lately — the National Academies has released its final report on conventonal prompt global strike and Iran claims to have launched a two stage missile (The Taepo-hab?). I am in Ithaca attending a technical…
Update: It has become clear to me that the Iskander is a modified SS-26 that should have a different SS-number. See the testimony of DIA Director Maples. Anya Loukianova, blogging at Total Wonkerr observes that the Georgian Interior Ministry claims…
Anonymous diplomats tell Reuter’s Boris Groendahl that they may delay India’s NSG exemption: But diplomats from several NSG member states said the draft fell behind earlier U.S. proposals, had unacceptable clauses and omissions, and went against existing U.S. laws on…
The W76 Life Extension Program is back on track — although NNSA officials won’t confirm that they had trouble producing FOGBANK. Frank Munger reports from Y-12: Federal officials today confirmed that workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant had completed…
Apparently, Poland gets a PAC-3 battery and US personnel as a tripwire, er defensive measure in exchange for hosting the European midcourse interceptor site: A senior Pentagon official described an unusual part of this quid pro quo: an American Patriot…
The Wonk—or more accurately Jeffrey—has been writing for a while about the organizational problems faced by the US Air Force in its handling of nuclear weapons (see this, this and this). In summary, Jeffery’s oft-repeated argument is this: Heads are…
Following up on James’s post about the proposed NSG exemption for India, the Arms Control Association has the full text of the document. If you haven’t been reading Siddharth Varadarajan’s commentary at Reality, One Bite At A Time and in…
The US has apparently finished drafting the NSG exemption for nuclear trade with India (apologies, this is a few days old—I’ve been behind on my blogging). At a meeting in London last month US Ambassador to the IAEA Greg Schulte…
