Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus have the scoop on how those six nuclear warheads went missing. One mistake at the beginning enabled a chain reaction that allowed the warheads to be out of custody for 36 hours: A munitions custodian officer is supposed to keep track of the nuclear warheads. In the case of cruise …
Syria-NORK Nuclear Cooperation
by | 2007-09-23 | 5 Comments
Though it has long sold its missile technology — to Syria, Iran, Pakistan and other customers — North Korea has never been known to export nuclear technology or material. Mark Mazzetti and David Sanger, “Israeli Raid on Syria Fuels Debate on Weapons,” The New York Times, September 22, 2007. Um, I guess I appreciate Mazzetti …
Say My Name
by | 2007-09-22 | 3 Comments
From Ashley Tellis’ article in Survival entitled, China’s Military Space Strategy: US policymakers, too, were aware of the preparations leading up to the test as well as its successful outcome but, after considerable internal deliberations, chose to keep silent. A week later, when an American scholar, Jerry Lewis, and Aviation Week & Space Technology finally …
Ah, They Were Scuds
by | 2007-09-21 | 20 Comments
Did the Israeli’s hit a Scud shipment? That is what Chris Nelson suggested on 9/19: In fact, as our headline, above, notes, we have absolutely solid information that the Israeli bombing raid on Syria was aimed at…and took out…missiles and/or weapons parts. Period. All the stories being floated about Israeli intelligence sources hinting that it …
