Jonathan Medalia at the Congressional Research Service has written a very thorough treatment of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RW) program. Medalia quotes Raymond Jeanloz, chair of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, to describe the basic…
North Korea’s FM responded to the 13 May bilateral meeting between US and DPRK officials with a positive statement: The DPRK will continue to closely follow the U.S. attitude and its stand will be officially conveyed to the U.S. side…
I will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by Economists for Peace and Security entitled Missile Defense, Space and the NPT. The discussion will be held from 3-5 at the Mission of Iceland to the United Nations. Back tomorrow.
Peter Baker of the Washington Post fetes Deputy National Security Advisor Jack Dyer (J.D.) Crouch II for not being Doug Feith: “We sort of decided that J.D. was the one we would take a harder view of,” said one Senate…
One of Arms Control Wonk’s regular readers also turns out to be pretty handy with photoshop. Here is the first of what I expect to be many occasional cartoons by Mr. “Significant Quantity”:
Daniel Sneider of the San Jose Mercury-News observes similarities between recent allegations of nuclear test preparations near Kilju and the 1998 revelation that North Korea was constructing an underground nuclear reactor and reprocessing facility near Kumchang-ri—a claim that turned out…
Advocates of the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator often emphasize the existence of more than 10,000 Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) to suggest that a military requirement exists for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. NIPP’s Eric Miller, for instance, argues:…
It should be noted that last week’s secret US- North Korea discussions didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. In fact, North Korea has recently been suggesting such talks. While Pyongyang obviously backed away from its demands that SecState Rice apologize…
Joseph DeTrani (third from right) participates in a seminar organized by the Chosun Ilbo and CSIS. Spokespersons at the White House and US Embassy, Tokyo confirm “working-level contacts” between US officials and the DPRK mission at the United Nations. Asahi…
I’ll get my .02 in. The point of the discussion RE: the Niger fiasco is that Bolton was cherry-picking intelligence. He ignored INR’s conclusions on this matter because he wanted to believe something different. The circus tent known as NRO…
