Eben Kaplan wrote a piece a few weeks ago about the PSI. Overall, it’s not bad. But it contains an all-too-frequent error. He wrote: Among the PSI’s most notable successes was the 2003 interception of a shipment of nuclear centrifuge…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
