In January and March 2006, I blogged about stories by James Sterngold inthe San Francisco Chronicle suggesting plutonium, much like Sophia Loren, ages extremely well—remaining quite, um, fissile for at least 60 years. A new study from Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore finds plutonium ages much better than Ms. Loren, remaining viable fissile material for …
NPT Wreckage
by | 2006-11-16 | 20 Comments
That ongoing effort is being broadcast on CSPAN2. Will someone please point out that India’s population size, type of government, and economic growth don’t mean that it gets to have nuclear weapons? Anyway, ACA sponsored a related event on Tuesday. Check out the transcript for more details. I would point out that Zia Mian discussed …
India's Nonproliferation Record Revisited
by | 2006-11-15 | No Comments
WaPo’s Dafna Linzer reports that the Congress has asked for an intelligence assessment on India’s nonproliferation record, particularly its ties to Iran: In a Jan. 23 letter to John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, the ranking chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations panels asked for “an interagency assessment” of India’s nuclear program, …
Bob Gates on Openness, Oversight
by | 2006-11-13 | 4 Comments
Stephen Aftergood’s Secrecy News commends SECDEF nominee Bob Gates on his record regarding openness, oversight: ROBERT GATES ON OPENNESS, OVERSIGHT As Director of Central Intelligence from 1991-1993, Robert M. Gates, the nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, grappled with questions of government secrecy more than almost any other agency head and helped to …
