Jeffrey can write the substance today. I’ve been busy. I just noticed this exchange between the SecState and Kerry during Rice’s 18 January confirmation hearing: Context: Rice and Kerry were discussing the role of “interfaith efforts” in U.S. public diplomacy.…
Bill Broad has an article in the New York Times about the Reliable Replacement Warhead program: Worried that the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be…
The Defense Department will strongly support Administration requests for nuclear weapons initiatives like the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), reports Ian Hoffman in the Oakland Tribune (via John Fleck): [A]s the administration revives [new nuclear-weapons initiatives] Monday in the president’s…
Secretary Rumsfeld has signed a memorandum designating the Commander, US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) as the “lead combatant commander for integrating and synchronizing DOD in combatting WMD.” Choosing STRATCOM reflects a certain emphasis on preventive military action to combat the spread…
The Arms Control Association posted the prepared remarks by Representative David Hobson (right) from lunch on Friday. Dave Ruppe summarizes of what he called a “scathing speech” in Global Security Newswire. One thing I would add to Dave’s excellent coverage—and…
Hans Kristensen has posted the most recent edition of Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat (National Air and Space Intelligence Center, August 2003). This is the same document that Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough “obtained” and reported on in a recent…
The Washington Post corrected its 1 Febuary 2005 story about the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). The Post … … incorrectly reported that the Bush administration is expected to seek $10.3 million in next year’s budget for that purpose. The…
Yeah, or that Libyan UF6 could be from Pakistan. But the International Atomic Energy Agency, which conducted tests on the materials, has not reached the same finding and believes that the evidence is inconclusive. Several experts said the process of…
Both Paul and I were at the Arms Control Association annual meeting today, which included remarks by Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Rademaker. You’ll be hearing more about Rademaker’s talk …
The NYT and WP stories are obviously describing two different intelligence methods, but the two don’t seem to exclude one another. Put together, they are perhaps compelling. Perhaps. Some relevant questions/comments: 1.When was the UF6 produced and shipped to Libya?…
