The Soviet Navy viewed nuclear-tipped torpedoes as aircraft carrier killers. A Soviet Foxtrot class diesel submarine, B-59, had this ace-in-the-hole when it was being depth-charged to the surface by the U.S. Navy during the Cuban missile crisis. Did Adm. George Anderson, the Chief of Naval Operations (and the Navy’s version of Gen. Curtis LeMay) suspect …
IC Threat Report on Iran: Sifting Tea Leaves
by | 2010-02-04 | 10 Comments
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 …
