Two U.S. officials tell Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post the Bush Administration will drop efforts to deny Mohamed ElBaradei a third term as IAEA Director-General: “We’re willing to lift our objections under certain conditions,” one of the officials said.…
Twenty four years ago today, Israel attacked Iraq’s Tammuz-1 (Osirak) nuclear reactor. Although popular myth holds the raid a success, the Duelfer Report hints at a more complicated reality: The Israeli destruction of the Tammuz 1 (Osirak) research reactor on…
North Koreans In New York (I think). Joseph DeTrani (Special Envoy for Six-Party Talks and U.S. Representative to KEDO) and Jim Foster (Director, EAP/K) met with for a second time with their North Korean counterparts though the New York channel.…
Writing about “relentless American intelligence agent” Jack Bauer—Keifer Sutherland’s character in 24”—New York Times television critic Frank Rich claimed “a fictional TV action hero is more engaged with the war on terror than those in Washington who actually have his…
A new report by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, Challenges to U.S. Space Superiority, warns more spacefaring states mean more challenges to US space superiority. Pretty soon, everybody will be operating in space. The Armed Forces Communications and…
Lee Yeong-jong of the conservative Joongang Ilbo reports that the head of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service does not believe activity near Kilju is preparation for a nuclear test: During a closed-door talk on Friday, NIS head Ko Young-kooc said,…
Anyone ever notice that google news lists “national conservative weekly” Human Events as “satire”?
Scott Stossel in The Atlantic Monthly quotes Bob Gallucci on people who oppose negotiations with North Korea: Gallucci, for his part, said he was “surprised at how surprised [Ken] Adelman was that we—those of us who favor negotiation—could end up…
Tom Friedman writes: “Readers of this column know that I rarely write about nuclear proliferation.” It shows. People who know about proliferation would not write that “the solution [to proliferation] is so ridiculously obvious there isn’t much to say.” [One…
Some relevant points on Syria and Libya’s suspected WMD programs that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Libya I posted a while back about Bolton’s accusations that Libya was in violation of the BWC. This name-calling strategy was…
