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Hans Kristensen notes the final report of the Air Force Blue Ribbon Review of Nuclear Weapons Policies and Procedures reveals what has been an open secret in Washington for some time — that overseas bases with US nuclear weapons have…
The House Energy and Water Subcommittee has again denied funding for the RRW in the FY09 Appropriations bill: Last year, the Administration proposed the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) as the first of a new generation of nuclear warheads. The Administration…
Bonjour, mes amis. Somewhat delayed, the French White Paper on defence has been published this morning. Note the English version is “simplified”. The original is much longer and beyond my schoolboy French. If any ACW reader would like to read…
President Bush apparently convinced European leaders to support additional sanctions against Iran during his farewell tour of Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, said that “one cannot exclude another round of sanctions.” Bank Melli and other Iranian financial institutions…
Greetings from Beijing We now have David Albright’s essay on the advanced nuclear weapons design, as well as stories in the New York Times and Washington Post. (David Sanger, Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Weapon, June 15, 2008; David Sanger…
I’m now back from the US, where I had two week’s holiday followed by a conference at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Since the conference was under the Chatham House Rule, there’s not much I can say except that…
The Japanese press is in a fit about a Japanese-made vacuum pump that turned up in North Korea. Apparently, the IAEA found the pump at Yongbyon, leading to police raids on two companies in Japan, according to the Daily Yomiuri,…
This is the pool — which is where I’ve been working all day and yesterday. Also, I ate at a place advertising “The World’s Best Burritos.” I promise something substantive soon.
The Department of Energy has announced that a new computer to be housed at Los Alamos — named RoadRunner after the state bird of New Mexico — is the first computer in the world to break the petaflop barrier, or…
Greetings from Delhi. Yesterday, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opened the conference, Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, by lighting a lamp (left) and giving a speech (right). (I tried to convince George Perkovich to have a lamp lighting…
