The Economist (sorry, no bylines) states that China “is deploying six road-mobile, solid-fueled (which means quick to launch) intercontinental DF-31s …” The Economist does not provide a citation, but six is an interesting number. (I don’t think it is from…
Given my prior obsession with the Litvinenko polonium-210 poisoning case, this op-ed in IHT, “How to Stop Radiation Terrorism” caught my attention. The authors, Peter D. Zimmerman, James M. Acton and M. Brooke Rogers, outline some of the dangerous radiological…
IAEA inspectors are back in Iran. A lot has happened since my last update (Olli, Ali, Oxen-Free: IAEA-Iran Action Plan). Making sense of the press reports is tough, though, without some context. Here is what I can piece together on…
Just a friendly little reminder that Jane and I are throwing a little blog-tastic happy hour at the Big Hunt tomorrow. 1345 Connecticut Ave., NW, near the Dupont Circle Metro (South Exit) I’ll probably get there around six or so.…
Behold, the second installment of the series on China’s SSBNs. This took a while, mainly because I wanted to reread Tom Stefanick’s Strategic Antisubmarine Warfare and Naval Strategy. It’s a classic. Anyway, the bottom line is that I doubt China’s…
Apparently the State Department fact sheet on the US-India 123 Agreement doesn’t mention prior consent to reprocess spent fuel, although the Indian fact sheet does. Siddharth Varadarajan explains: But it is in the U.S. and Indian descriptions of what the…
I have some more information on the “follow-on white paper” to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW—the cabinet level statement on nuclear policy signed by Bodman, Gates and Rice.…
Update: Oh yeah, if any readers in the Los Alamos area would like to grab a cocktail on Friday evening, e-mail me! Speaking of fancy conferences, I am attending one of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues conferences. Harold Agnew…
T&D Happy Hour is happening on Thursday August 2. The usual: Big Hunt, upstairs, 6pm and on. We will be discussing pressing issues of national security, such as my personal favorite topics: world leaders on personal transport devices, Russian poisonings,…
Maybe this “talking to other countries” thing isn’t such a good idea after all. After four days of talks with India over the 123 Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the White House intervenes. The result? Bottomsecretary Nick Burns gives the Indians advance…
