Jane Perlez, David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt highlight in the New York Times a leaked cable from the US Ambassador in Pakistan in June 2009 stating that Pakistan delayed “a visit by U.S. technical experts to discuss logistical and other issues” as part of a plan to remove US-origin spent fuel from a Pakistani …
National Blindness & National Technical Means
by | 2010-11-30 | 12 Comments
Many of New START’s harshest critics argue that the Treaty’s monitoring provisions are deficient. They have an odd way of demonstrating their commitment to verification — by systematically trying to kill off treaties with on-site inspections and clauses protective of monitoring satellites. This approach makes sense if you’re trying to weaponize space, not if you’re …
NATO Nukes
by | 2010-11-29 | 2 Comments
The first “revelation” from the Wikileaks cache is something we already knew — that there are US nuclear weapons stored in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey — at least, as of November 2009.
Wikileaks and “CableGate”
by | 2010-11-29 | 30 Comments
I know a lot of you with .gov and .mil addresses have been warned to stay far, far away from the Wikileaks material. I am going to spend a lot of time over the next few weeks going through the cables carefully, pulling out the things that I think are most interesting. So, even if …
