Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has fired NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks. NNSA Deputy Administrator Tom D’Agostino will serve as acting Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator. Linton Brooks is a fine public servant getting a raw deal. Bodman cited security lapses as the reason for firing Brooks: I repeatedly have told DOE and laboratory …
N Minus Six Months
by | 2007-01-06 | 2 Comments
We were discussing the origin of the widespread claim that Japan is “six months” from a bomb—and the earliest scholarly reference I could find was Richard Halloran’s Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited: Is Japanese Militarism Resurgent. Halloran argues: Japan also has the financial and technical resources to make nuclear weapons. A Japanese strategic thinker said years …
Second NORK Nuclear Test?
by | 2007-01-05 | No Comments
ABC’s Jonathan Karl is quoting a “senior defense officials” claiming that North Korea has made preparations for a second nuclear test. North Korea appears to have made preparations for another nuclear test, according to U.S. defense officials. “We think they’ve put everything in place to conduct a test without any notice or warning,” a senior …
Israel Wants Same Treatment as India
by | 2007-01-04 | 2 Comments
Wonder how our friends in Israel feel about that big, gaping hole we blew in the nonproliferation regime for India? Jealous, according to Mark Hibbs: During the last 18 months, Israeli officials have discreetly explored, including in bilateral discussions with their US government counterparts, how Israel might politically benefit from the US-India nuclear deal, well-placed …
