Janne Nolan — author of the pretty amazing An Elusive Consensus — is giving a talk on the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, tomorrow (Tuesday), at a Security for a New Century event on the Hill. I am joining her, which is quite an honor. The Nuclear Posture Review When: Tuesday, December 18 at 10:00 am …
Blog Of Note: Atomic City Underground
by | 2007-12-17 | 1 Comment
If you followed the arrest of the Roy Lee Oakley — the Oak Ridge contractor who took a couple of broken sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier home and tried to sell them rather ineptly to France (no, I can’t make this up) — you read some pretty damned fine reporting by the Knoxville News-Sentinel‘s …
Official: NIE Risks 2nd Yom Kippur War
by | 2007-12-15 | 14 Comments
Avi Dichter, Israel’s public security minister, said today that the Iran NIE could result in another Yom Kippur War. Dichter is referring to the surprise 1973 attack on Israel led by Egypt and Syria on Yom Kippur, the most important Jewish holiday. Israel ultimately clobbered the Arab coalition, although not before losing some early battles. …
Follow-On White Paper Rumor
by | 2007-12-14 | 2 Comments
I have mocked the living hell out of this forthcoming administration follow-on white paper to <a href="http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/1587/maintaining-deterrence-in-the-21st-century. “>Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Fund the RRW). My teasing has been based, in part, on the lame list of myths that Administration plans to dispel. The myths were …
