If you check out today’s Washington Post outlook section, I have an opinion piece on five myths about the bomb. After blogging about the lame myths to be dispelled in the forthcoming Administration white paper on nuclear posture, I thought I could do better.
STRATCOM Still Hearts MIRVs
by | 2007-11-29 | 2 Comments
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 …
