Behold, the second installment of the series on China’s SSBNs. This took a while, mainly because I wanted to reread Tom Stefanick’s Strategic Antisubmarine Warfare and Naval Strategy. It’s a classic. Anyway, the bottom line is that I doubt China’s boomers would really be more survivable than the land-based leg of their triad. That reflects …
More on the India 123
by | 2007-07-30 | 10 Comments
Apparently the State Department fact sheet on the US-India 123 Agreement doesn’t mention prior consent to reprocess spent fuel, although the Indian fact sheet does. Siddharth Varadarajan explains: But it is in the U.S. and Indian descriptions of what the 123 agreement says about India’s right to reprocess U.S.-origin spent fuel that the differences are …
Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper
by | 2007-07-27 | 7 Comments
I have some more information on the “follow-on white paper” to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW—the cabinet level statement on nuclear policy signed by Bodman, Gates and Rice. The “Follow-On White Paper”, which will include classified appendices, is already in draft form. I …
Greetings from Los Alamos
by | 2007-07-26 | 6 Comments
Update: Oh yeah, if any readers in the Los Alamos area would like to grab a cocktail on Friday evening, e-mail me! Speaking of fancy conferences, I am attending one of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues conferences. Harold Agnew was our keynote speaker. He told us the shoot the bomb story about his inspection …
