I believe NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Don Cook has provided the first open-source confirmation of rumors that the W78 warhead has a pit corrosion problem.
Greetings from Bruxelles!
by | 2011-05-08 | No Comments
I am here, in the land of Tintin, for a Carnegie Endowment workshop on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Obviously the big question is the status of the ongoing effort to create a set of criteria to govern transfers of enrichment and reprocessing technologies. Current NSG guidelines, as Mark Hibbs has observed, merely …
GAO on the B61 LEP
by | 2011-05-05 | 10 Comments
The General Accounting Office has a released a report, Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO, on the B61 Lifetime Extension Program. Among the many, many amazing details is a very easy-to-read schedule of planned LEPs (see above). But the report …
Osama
by | 2011-05-02 | 85 Comments
Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city. The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts. The city’s most prominent feature is Kakul, the Pakistani military academy where outstanding recruits begin their studies and service careers. On April 23rd, the Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, visited Kakul to …
