Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice submitted a three-page joint statement to Congress entitled Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Fully Fund the RRW. Okay, so I made that last bit up. But one-third of the report—the …
Will China's Deterrent Go To Sea?
by | 2007-07-23 | 15 Comments
I just love this illustration, by Istvan Banyai, that accompanied Keir Lieber and Daryl Press’ article in The Atlantic. This is the first of a three part series on issues surrounding China’s newest ballistic missile submarine. The other posts will discuss how capable the submarine could be and what the new SSBN will mean for …
Steve Coll to Lead New America Foundation
by | 2007-07-23 | No Comments
The New York Times has a nice write-up of New America’s upcoming leadership transition to Steve Coll, including a rather pleasant reference to my initiative on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation: Steve Coll, whose résumé as a journalist includes two Pulitzer Prizes, a stint as managing editor of The Washington Post and a job as a …
Obsolete Technologies and Proliferation
by | 2007-07-23 | 5 Comments
Some folks are suggesting that we should go easy on Roy Lee Oakley—the inept contract worker attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barriers to an FBI agent posing as a French embassy employee—on the grounds that gaseous diffusion is “obsolete and [has been] replaced by cheaper and more efficient methods of uranium enrichment.” …
