Linzer has to be f’ing kidding right? RIGHT? When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused, citing a large workload and a desire to protect its sources and tradecraft. Frustrated, the State Department assigned a …
Trident Replacement
by | 2006-12-09 | 11 Comments
The large object at 10 Downing Street is supposed to be a submarine. Strangely reminiscent of Claes Oldenburg’s soft sculptures (more). No. 10 Downing St. has released a white paper—The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent—arguing that Britain should replace the Trident system, keeping its nuclear deterrent (though dropping the number of warheads to …
NK offering uranium to Russia?
by | 2006-12-08 | 2 Comments
This story fell under my radar screen earlier this week, but I noticed it yesterday. Kind of interesting if it were true, but it’s not clear, and actually sounds like just gossip to me. Last Saturday, the Tokyo Shimbun (in Japanese only I think) reported that North Korea had offered Russia exclusive rights to its …
Live Blogging Me!
by | 2006-12-07 | 3 Comments
Peter Zimmerman and I are giving a talk about our article, “Bomb in the Backyard” at a meeting with defense journalists. My handout—using some of the cool images by Jeffrey Smith—is here. We are also getting a couple of questions about polonium. The best resource I know is this fact sheet from the Health Physics …
