This is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, better known as Curveball, getting down at an Iraqi wedding in 1993. The 60 Minutes segment tonight, if you saw it after the Patriots-Colts game, was a fine introduction to Curveball and that damned wall. But for the gory detail, I highly recommend Bob Drogin’s new book, Curveball: Spies, Lies …
Hair Trigger Alert
by | 2007-11-03 | 8 Comments
Ambassador Rocca is getting lambasted for stating that US nuclear forces are not on hair trigger alert: It is popular to call for removing nuclear weapons from “hair-trigger alert.” Frankly, in order to take action to comply with this request, we would first have to put our weapons on “hair-trigger alert,” so we could then …
Syria and Nuclear Weapons, Again
by | 2007-10-29 | 43 Comments
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 …
