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.” …
Did We Flip Tahir, Too?
by | 2007-07-22 | 3 Comments
Hey, you remember Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir? The guy President Bush called the Khan network’s chief financial officer and money launderer? The guy described as a creepy little puke with a man-crush on AQ Khan, tooling around Dubai in a luxury car purchased with the proceeds from his booming business in nuclear weapons technologies? The …
Deploy the Spy Squirrels
by | 2007-07-20 | 10 Comments
I have often wondered, what kind of intelligence capabilities would we need to know whether the Iranians were hiding a nuclear weapons program? Now, eureka. Clearly, we need spy squirrels. Even those cunning Brits are doing it. Thank you NBC blog, this made my day: The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported this week, that …
