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Always Trust Everyone

The President of Pakistan has repeatedly said that Pakistan is not making a bomb and has no intention of making a bomb. We have not only made this commitment solemnly, we are prepared also to accept international safeguards on a…

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Nukes: Betcha Can't Make Just One!

Stephen Schwartz is guest-blogging at DefenseTech. I am cross posting his piece on the Reliable Replacement Warhead. Remember those commercials for Lay’s potato chips where the announcer says that Lay’s are so good that you can’t eat just one? Well,…

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Pak Bomb Factory

David Albright and Paul Brannan of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) released commercially available satellite images of a new Pakistani plutonium production reactor under construction. (Here is a GoogleEarth placemark.) This is really great work. Precisely the…

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Department of Wankery

The House approved this atrocity yesterday. Great first day back from vacation. But since the deal will strengthen the nonproliferation regime and definitely has nothing to do with campaign contributions, selling weapons to India, or containing China, I’m not worried.…

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Ain't No Party Like A State Department Party

I know, it is the New York Post, so grain of salt and all … A State Department worker cruising down 34th Street with three scantily clad women in what appeared to be a government car with flashing lights collided…

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Securing the Bomb 2006

During Will Tobey’s confirmation hearing, Senator Levin asked the nominee for NNSA Deputy Administrator about Securing the Bomb 2006 SENATOR CARL LEVIN: Thank you. Mr. Tobey, last week the Nuclear Threat Initiative, NTI, issued its most recent Managing the Atom…

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Classified Blogging

The most fascinating aspect of the story about the contractor fired for something she wrote on her blog on Intelink is that Intelink has blogs. That wasn’t the case in March 2005 when Kris Alexander—an intelligence officer in the US…

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Joseph on India

Friend of Wonk Jofi Joseph has a great op-ed in Defense News, arguing that the Administration should admit that the US-India nuclear deal trades nonproliferation interests for a strategic partnership with India, and accept Congressional efforts to limit the nonproliferation…

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China's Incredible Shrinking Missile

I was pleased to be quoted in a recent edition of The Economist (“Out of their silos,” June 8, 2006) saying “Chinese leaders are less worried about a pre-emptive strike by the Americans than about an accidental or unauthorised launch…

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New AS ISN

The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.) Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna…