The Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community is out, and it’s official: cyber is the new black. (The version presented to the Senate is linked above. Here’s the basically identical House version.) Judging by the many threats ably described in this report, life is short, so let’s skip to the good stuff. Pages …
NNSA’s Big Budget, START and CTBT
by | 2010-02-03 | 14 Comments
The Administration has proposed a massive increase in funding for the nuclear weapons complex, increasing the budget for NNSA by 13.4 percent (over what the FY2010 appropriation.) John Fleck has an excellent write-up of the announcement in the Albuquerque Journal. The purpose of announcing the massive increases in funding for the nuclear weapons enterprise — …
Hints From Pyongyang: No 3rd Nuclear Test
by | 2010-02-01 | 11 Comments
Funny thing about the Bomb: you can’t eat it. Going by what the North Korean government has said of late, they’re not exactly beating their swords into ploughshares or their spears into pruning hooks. But, we are told, national security goals have made way for economic goals, and a third nuclear test should not be …
Lugar on START at SW21
by | 2010-01-30 | 8 Comments
I’ve been quiet about the START negotiations, save for the occasional tweet, in large part because it doesn’t make sense to second-guess negotiators, especially before they’ve completed their work. (Buy me a beer, on the other hand …) But Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) made some remarks at the recent Strategic Weapons in the 21st Century …
