The Reliable Replacement Warhead program is either: A nonproliferation friendly alternative to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), or A Trojan Horse bearing a return to nuclear testing. This blog has suggested both possibilities Whether the RRW is good or…
Canadians are not totally against defense. Maybe. Two months ago, CBC reported two senior Raytheon employees skulking around the Happy Valley-Goose Bay area in Labrador. … senior officials from the Raytheon Company travelled to Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, on a…
Pavel Podvig asked a while back about some numbers I used regarding the Ukrainian Kh-55 cruise missiles that ended up in Iran and China. I wrote: … the [missile] smugglers forged documents naming Russia as the missiles’ destination. This is…
IAEA Deputy Director for Safeguards Pierre Goldschmidt delivered a confidential report to the IAEA Board of Governors today. Agence France Presse obtained a draft. Goldschmidt updated the Board on a long-running dispute. In 2003, Iran admitted to reprocessing small amounts…
Blogging from the Aspen Wye River Conference Center today. As expected Mohamed ElBaradei won approval for an over-precendented third term as IAEA Director-General. The US continues last week’s spin that the failure to oust ElBaradei is a victory, arguing the…
Arms Control Wonk.com has obtained the full text of the Final Report of the Missile Defense Agency’s Independent Review Team (IRT), first reported by Bradley Graham in the Washington Post. Graham, however, missed the scoop—the IRT perversely recommends reducing future…
One of the “failures” Gertz pinned on the IC yesterday was the “deployment of a new [Chinese] attack submarine known as the Yuan class that was missed by U.S. intelligence until photos of the submarine appeared on the Internet.” Gertz…
San Antonio Express-News staff writer Jeorge Zarazua got a chance to climb around the Missile Defense Agency’s gigantic Sea-based X-band Radar (SBX)—a missile defense radar mounted on a self-propelled oil-drilling rig. The SBX is larger than a football field, which…
Tired of the leaks, spin and misinformation Bill Gertz is pushing? Bill Gertz of the Washington Times distorts a report into accusing the US intelligence community of having “failed to recognize several key military developments in China in the past…
One of Laura Rozen’s readers at War and Piece asks a stunningly simple question about the effect of John Bolton on the “New York Channel” with North Korea: Recent days have seen the “New York channel” used to great success…
