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 …
Guangyuan Plutonium Production Reactor
by | 2006-11-10 | 2 Comments
Google Earth now has high resolution imagery of what is generally believed to be China’s Guangyuan plutonium production reactor. Click on the image for a .kmz file. The annotations are reproduced from David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, Chinese Military Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium Inventories (Institute for Science and International Security, June 30, 2005). David …
