Greetings from Istanbul. Several people have sent me stories about the latest kerfuffle involving the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot AFB, which failed a nuclear surety inspection, and the separate decision by SECDEF Gates to fire Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley and Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne for the accidental shipment of …
Call Me Magellan
by | 2008-06-05 | 7 Comments
Or Ferdinand. Either way I am set to begin circumnavigating the globe. So, dear friends and readers, drop me a line if I am in your neck of the woods at armscontrolwonk [at] gmail.com 1. Istanbul, Turkey. June 6-8. Attending the Financial Services Volunteer Corp dialogue Expanding Policy Connections: Strengthening Ties Among the United States, …
North Korean Reprocessing Campaigns
by | 2008-06-03 | 25 Comments
I’ve been writing the same blog post for four days. Time to just publish it. Thanks to McClatchey’s Warren Strobel and a trio of articles by the New York Times’ Helene Cooper (1, 2 and 3), we now know that North Korea has declared that it produced 37 kilograms of plutonium — and denies that …
Swiss Shred Tinner Docs; Khan Talks
by | 2008-05-30 | 18 Comments
I still can’t believe the Swiss shredded the evidence. AP’s Hanspeter Haefliger reports that Swiss authorities, under the supervision of the IAEA, shredded many documents relating to the Urs Tinner-AQ Khan case: The documents formed part of a case against three members of the Tinner family who are suspected of involvement in the nuclear smuggling …
