Safety and Security of Russian Nuclear Facilities Report
The 2004 Annual Report to Congress on the Safety and Security of Russian Nuclear Facilities and Military Forces is now available on the NIC website.
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Brooks on RNEP
Director of the National Nuclear Security Administration Linton Brooks testified yesterday on Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). Brooks admitted RNEP will produce a huge amount of fallout: TAUSCHER: “Is there any way an RNEP of any size that we would…
1987 Meeting Between Iran and AQ Khan Network
IAEA Deputy Director General Pierre Goldschmidt’s Statement to the Board of Governors confirms an account, which first appeared in The Washington Post, that the A.Q. Khan network offered Iran assistance with its centrifuge program in 1987. Goldschmidt told the Board…
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Design That Ended Up in Libya
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein have an article, Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks, in The Washington Quarterly that has previously upublished information about the Chinese nuclear weapons design provided to Libya by the Khan network: The…
Patriot Performance in Iraq
Inside Defense has the full text of the Defense Science Board’s Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Patriot System Performance (Not yet available from the DSB website). The report focuses on three fratricide incidents—including the death of…
Dennis Papadopoulos
For people with virtually no sense of fashion when it comes to clothing, Washington “defense intellectuals” are suprisingly adept at picking up on the latest fashions when it comes to ideas. One of the biggest intellectual fads in recent years…
What to do with UNMOVIC
The Associated Press reports that, “after blocking discussions for nearly two years, the United States has quietly started low-key talks on ending the work of U.N. inspectors” in Iraq. The Iraqi government wants UNMOVIC shut down, in part to regain…
Biosecurity Course
The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences will present an online course to educate life scientists about national security, international affairs, and biological-weapons control. Although designed to engage life scientists, the course is designed to be accessible to non-scientists,…
It's broken, so don’t fix it
About ten years ago (25 January 1995) a Black Brant XII rocket launch from Northern Norway triggered a false alarm in the Russian early warning system. How close the false alarm came to triggering an accidental nuclear war is a…
Hose off, eh?
Canada has decided not to participate in the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Canadian press reports that the decision began to take shape in mid-February as Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin began to shape his defense budget request. The original…