Joby Warrick of the Washington Post spotlighted the new book out by David Albright that sheds more light into the AQ Khan network: From the article: As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear “package” deal that …
Khan Kept A Diary?
by | 2010-03-16 | 3 Comments
A side-note on that treasure trove of documents that AQ Khan gave Simon Henderson. I keep recommending Henderson’s account of the documents in the Times as background, but allow me to make another recommendation — Henderson’s 1993 review of his involvement in the Pakistan nuclear issue in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, followed by …
Leaks and Motives of AQ Khan
by | 2010-03-15 | 22 Comments
I notice that Jeff Smith and Joby Warrick have yet another story based on documents provided by AQ Khan to Simon Henderson. (For more about the documents, read Henderson’s account in the Times online.) This story pisses me off. (I suspect the editors, not the reporters, are at fault here.) The lede to the story …
NATO's Nuclear Opacity
by | 2010-03-14 | 2 Comments
Once [Follow-On To Lance] had been cancelled [in May 1990], as well as the upgrade for nuclear artillery, and the INF Treaty had eliminated all longer-range missiles, only dual-capable aircraft remained available for SACEUR’s use as a nuclear deterrent. The rancor raised by the FOTL debate carried forward in to a broad public concern over …
