Apparently Space News — I haven’t seen a copy yet — has a write up of Gregory and my talk, with a very misleading headline: Upcoming story in Space News: Nov. 19, 2007 issue SCHOLARS: NO PROOF CHINESE A-SAT TEST A THREAT TO U.S. By TURNER BRINTON, WASHINGTON In the latest volley in the ongoing …
No PALs For Paks
by | 2007-11-18 | 19 Comments
Sanger and Broad definitively answer the question of whether the US shared Permissive Action Link technology with the Pakistanis (no): The American program was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Bush administration debated whether to share with Pakistan one of the crown jewels of American nuclear protection technology, known as “permissive action …
Follow Up on the ASAT Talk
by | 2007-11-16 | 12 Comments
Greetings from Dubai. Were I ever involved in a clandestine proliferation network I’d have meetings here too. The Carnegie Endowment has a nice summary of Gregory and my talk — which is pretty amazing since I ramble and neither of us saw it or provided a draft of the paper: Lewis then turned to the …
Iran NIE Forthcoming
by | 2007-11-14 | 19 Comments
Apparently, the much anticipated NIE on Iran’s nuclear programs is coming out any day now. Walter Pincus went over to lunch at the Wilson Center, where McConnell dropped that the NIE will be done by the end of the month: Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said yesterday that a long-awaited intelligence estimate covering Iran’s …
