Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the M-word still features regularly in Indian Government discourse. Just yesterday, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab …
No Nukes At Lakenheath
by | 2008-06-26 | 9 Comments
Well, maybe they aren’t, after all. As we discussed last week in the comments, there are no U.S. nuclear weapons at Lakenheath Air Base. The non-presence of U.S. nuclear weapons was confirmed by several sources to Hans Kristensen last week, which is pretty much consistent with what I’ve heard. Hans thinks they came out after …
Syria-Iran link?
by | 2008-06-26 | 8 Comments
A big nuclear day today… BBC News is reporting that North Korea has handed over The Declaration; no word yet on its contents (excluding, of course, the continual stream of leaks over the past few months). On a not-entirely-unrelated theme, Ian Black is reporting in the Grauniad (sorry, British joke) that according to “an adviser …
Articles on China ASATs
by | 2008-06-25 | 4 Comments
Dwane Day has had enough of the Pentagon’s Chinese Military Power (CMP) and its slipshod accounting of Chinese military space programs: The Pentagon report is sloppy, inconsistent, and of limited utility, and as an indicator of what China is planning with its military space program, it should be taken with more than a few grains …
