U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill, center, sits with his delegate members attending the 2nd working group meeting on North Korea’s nuclear program at the Liaoning Friendship Convention Center in Shenyang, northeastern China, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007. Envoys to talks on North Korea’s nuclear program met Thursday in northeast China to discuss the next steps in …
Redzikowo Interceptor Site
by | 2007-08-17 | 1 Comment
In February 2007, Gazeta Wyborcza reported that four sites were under consideration for the US interceptor site in Poland: Zegrze Pomorskie, Debrzno, and Slupsk-Redzikowo. Since then, Redzikowo — a now defunct Polish airbase — has been looking like the place. At least that is what the Polish press claims. Oh, and MDA released this slide, …
Ike, Dubya and Nuclear Forces
by | 2007-08-16 | 13 Comments
On December 31, 2012, when the Moscow Treaty both takes effect and expires, the United States will have the lowest force levels since the Eisenhower Administration, or at least that is what the latest State-Defense-Energy white paper says: In 2001, President Bush directed that the United States reduce the number of operationally deployed strategic nuclear …
KAERI Loses Uranium
by | 2007-08-15 | 4 Comments
I didn’t know the University of California ran KAERI, too: The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) is having a hard time searching for 2.7 kilograms of uranium sent to an incinerator by accident in May. The state-run institute learned of the grave mistake on Aug. 6 and formed a task force to find the …
