Last week, I suggested that the United States should declassify aggregate stockpile numbers for past, present and future forces and subcategorize them by purpose, delivery system, and status. I noted that, in 1992, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell had released similar information without a crack opening in the space-time continuum. (According to a …
Best Starbucks Product Placement, Ever
by | 2007-08-17 | 20 Comments
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 …
