Remember when I blogged, back in January 2006, that “the Bush Administration now plans to keep multiple nuclear warheads on some of our ICBMs …”? Turns out — in another bit of good reporting that I recently missed — Elaine Grossman reports that STRATCOM will keep three warheads on 25 Minuteman III ICBMs: “In [fiscal] …
North Korea Declaration Coming
by | 2007-11-29 | 5 Comments
AS Hill says North Korea will submit in days its declaration of activities: I think they will be providing a declaration to the chair of the six parties, that is to the Chinese. And that will be addressed in the coming days and weeks, as soon as China is able to schedule a Six-Party meeting. …
RRW Gets $15 M in 6.2A Dough
by | 2007-11-27 | 4 Comments
If that headline makes sense to you, welcome home. If not, it means that the Appropriations Conference committee agreed to provide $15 million in paper studies funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead, according to a press release from Senator Feinstein’s office: The members of the House and Senate Conference Committee for the FY’08 Defense Appropriations …
Arsenals of Folly
by | 2007-11-27 | 6 Comments
I am about halfway through Richard Rhodes’ new book, Arsenals of Folly. I am enjoying it tremendously. My favorite moment, though, comes in the discussion of overkill in US nuclear strategy: Robert McNamara, for example, visited the Omaha offices of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff for a briefing about the U.S. nuclear target list …
