Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy satellites, however, U.S. intelligence agencies oppose weakening the on-site inspections and other means that give …
More on Harvey & RRW
by | 2007-06-18 | 12 Comments
I am extremely pleased that our little shindig with John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, has resulted in a couple of stories in press, including wire reports by Agence France Presse and UPI. The UPI story, however, has a couple of inaccuracies that I am honor-bound to point out. The first two are …
Counter-Proliferation in Taiwan
by | 2007-06-18 | 1 Comment
The National Security Archive has released a new electronic briefing book on U.S. opposition to the Taiwanese nuclear program in the 1970’s. As is usual of the Archive’s excellent briefing books, compiled from documents acquired under FOIA and annotated with expert commentary, this new one presents a narrative by William Burr and links to PDFs …
Iran Is Racing Toward … Something
by | 2007-06-17 | 13 Comments
The chart is by Andreas Persbo, who has another interesting blog post expressing skepticism about the IAEA’s assessment that Iran may install 3,000 centrifuges by August and 8,000 centrifuges by the end of the year. “Although ElBaradei is a very capable guy,” Andreas concludes, “I personally remain sceptical to any claim that the Iranian’s suddenly …
