Sometimes, I think the New York Times David Sanger is just Judy Miller without the creepy love notes from Scooter Libby. Then I think, I’ve never read David Sanger’s mail. Sanger cites diplomats and nuclear experts who claim that Sunday’s “short notice” IAEA inspection at Natanz—the one that AFP reported was blocked, but the IAEA …
NAS: Partially Fund Conventional Trident
by | 2007-05-15 | No Comments
That National Academies Panel on Prompt Global Strike has released its interim letter on the Conventional Trident Modification (CTM) program. As expected, the interim letter calls for funding only RDT&E efforts in FY ‘08: In FY 08, fund research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) efforts associated with CTM at a level sufficient to determine its …
NORK IRBM, Musudan-1?
by | 2007-05-15 | 9 Comments
Yeah, so I’ve been wondering (more) about the reports that North Korea was developing a new IRBM based on the Soviet SS-N-6. Now Asahi Shimbun reports (full text in comments) that “North Korea unveiled the new missile loaded on a trailer at the military parade held in Pyongyang on 25 April to commemorate the 75th …
Tenet, Libya and Soccer
by | 2007-05-14 | 5 Comments
I was contemplating a new section called “Sunday Tenet Blogging” where I patiently comb through Tenet’s memoir, picking our interesting chapters or stories for scrutiny. Yesterday was supposed to deal with his account of the disarmament of Libya … at least until I ran into another, incredibly stupid error in Tenet’s book. At the end …
