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More on Libya's Bomb Design …

A few months ago, David Albright and Corey Hinderstein wrote a very interesting article, “Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks,” in The Washington Quarterly that contained some previously upublished information about that Chinese nuclear weapons design that…

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Congratulatons Mo!

… the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Excerpt from the Will of Alfred…

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Hayden Beat Sweetner in the Ballmer Sun

Look for Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun to break some big intelligence stories out of the DNI’s office in future—she gives DDNI General Michael V. Hayden some sugary lovin’ in a classic beat sweetner today: Michael V. Hayden sets…

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Roston: J-Bolt Screwed Iraqi Scientists

Michael Roston adds to the list of reasons that John Bolton was a lousy Undersecretary of State—apparently he held up efforts to secure Iraqi scientists after Operation Iraqi Freedom: Regular readers of Arms Control Wonk know that the pro-international institution…

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Can North Korea Produce UF6?

Picking up comments by Ambassador Hill at the Foreign Press Center (still not on the website), Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler report in the Washington Post that the Bush Administration plans “to push North Korea to begin disclosing the extent…

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Questions about NORK Centrifuge Program

A former Department of State told Paul Kerr that “North Korea has probably imported enough components for 3,000-5,000 centrifuges and may have acquired enough for 6,000-7,000.” Whether those components have been assembeled into centrifuges or whether North Korea can make…

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State Department ISN Bureau

Dave Ruppe in Global Security Newswire reports “the U.S. State Department this month quietly began implementing a major reorganization plan to eliminate its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, despite a U.S. Senate hold on the plan…” Congressional Staff seem bewildered…

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Senate: Restore NFIRE KV

David Ruppe at Global Security Newswire got ahold of the Senate Approprations report. The NFIRE Kill Vehicle is ba-aaaaack: The Ballistic Missile Defense System [BMDS] Interceptor program element consists of the NFIRE program and the KEI program. Because these programs…

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RRW: Los Alamos vs. Livermore

“Remember: The Soviets are the competition. Los Alamos is the enemy.” Statement Attributed to a Weapons Designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Stephen Schwartz on the RRW program Congress imagined the Reliable Replacement Warhead program as an effort to “improve…