Well, well, well. It appears that Syria’s box-on-the-Euphrates is at least four years old and was spotted by US intelligence, which drew less dire conclusions: A senior American intelligence official said yesterday that American analysts had looked carefully at the site from its early days, but were unsure then whether it posed a nuclear threat. …
In Memoriam, Randall Forsberg
by | 2007-10-28 | 3 Comments
Randy Forsberg, the founder of the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I met her once. She was really great. In this interview — from the documentary, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of …
Syria Tidbits
by | 2007-10-26 | 29 Comments
Chris Nelson is now convinced of the reactor story, based in part on Chris Hill’s refusal to confirm or deny in Congressional testimony. … a former directly involved official concluded, “today Hill said he couldn’t say, or not. That says ‘yes’, because if not, you just SAY not!” Nelson-san is the much respected collector of …
Syria Dumps the Evidence
by | 2007-10-25 | 7 Comments
Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North Korea has wiped clean the site. I am sitting in an airport, but I thought …
