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 …
Strategic Posture Commission
by | 2007-05-11 | 20 Comments
Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), chair of the Strategic Forces subcommittee, has inserted language into the FY2008 Authorization Bill creating a Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. Congresswoman Tauscher said the Commission will “create a public discussion about future requirements for nuclear weapons.” If the Senate, which is not expected to include similar …
Pakistan Completing Reprocessing Facility
by | 2007-05-10 | 5 Comments
In January, David Albright and Paul Brannan released satellite images demonstrating that Pakistan had resumed construction at a facility near Pakistan’s Chasma reactor. The facility is basically a set of empty buildings, but the story is how they came to be empty: France canceled the proposed sale of a plutonium reprocessing facility to Pakistan, under …
Submarine Dismantlement Trudges On
by | 2007-05-10 | 9 Comments
In mid-April I attended the Nuclear National Dialogue in Moscow, a conference sponsored by Green Cross, Global Green, Rosatom, and others. I have few good details to report, but there was one presentation that may be interesting to folks who follow nuclear submarine dismantlement work in Russia and contributions of the Global Partnership to this …
