Thomas Fingar, the former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, had some rather interesting things to say recently about the (in)famous November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. You might remember that the NIE, whose Key Judgments were released to the public in early December 2007, caused a real stir at the time. The judgment …
ISODARCO XXIII
by | 2009-11-06 | 6 Comments
Andalo. Not only a beautiful ski resort in the Italian Alps but home to the ISODARCO Winter School. This year’s school is on ‘The Road to Nuclear Zero and Arms Control’. It’ll be an opportunity for an informal but in-depth examination of the practical path towards a world free of nuclear weapons. Part of what …
Lugar on START Verification
by | 2009-11-05 | 1 Comment
Now, that was what I was talking about. Dick Lugar, one of the old bulls of the Senate, has introduced a bill, S.2727, to extend, on a reciprocal basis, the inspections under START for another six months. (More precisely, it extends the necessary privileges and immunities to Russian arms inspection teams.) The bill itself is …
Vacuum Tubes for Chu
by | 2009-11-05 | 5 Comments
As Kingston over at Nukes of Hazard notes, the folks at the Kansas City Plant presented Secretary of Energy Steven Chu with a little plaque showing “1960s-era vacuum tubes from the B61 radars” and “RF-IC based multi-chip module for the next generation radar applications.” Vacuum tubes, and their misuse as an RRW talking point, have …
