Er, again. Another nuclear weapons related incident: The U.S. military has regained control of four non-nuclear nose cone assemblies for a Minuteman missile mistakenly sent to Taiwan in 2006, Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne said during a news conference here today. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates learned of the situation on March 21 and …
French Nuclear Reductions
by | 2008-03-22 | 31 Comments
Click on the image for the AFP story, which has the best images, including Sarko talking and, my favorite, Sarko climbing down into a hatch. Launching Le Terrible, France’s new SSBN, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced reductions in France’s arsenal. The recommendations were more adventurous than press reporting on the Livre Blanc had suggested. Here …
Strategic Posture Commission Announced
by | 2008-03-20 | 12 Comments
And the nominees are … The following individuals have been nominated to the Commission by the House Armed Services Committee: • William Perry, Commission Chairman, former Secretary of Defense; • John Foster, Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; • Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission; • Keith Payne, CEO …
Disarmament and Deterrence
by | 2008-03-19 | 6 Comments
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month or so on planes to disarmament conferences and planes to non-proliferation conferences, and on one of those journeys (to Geneva, in fact!) I (re)read something that made a very deep impression on me. It was from the debate in International Affairs last year about the …
