Well, the folks at the Target Store in Colorado Springs can breath a sigh of relief: NORAD is moving up the road to Peterson Air Force Base and putting Cheyenne Mountain on standby. The Denver Post has some nice images and graphics. GAO, in a report ominously number 06-666, recently described the Cheyene Mountain upgrade …
Reliable Replacement Warhead Redux
by | 2006-08-02 | 1 Comment
Haninah Levine has the second of what will be four articles at DefenseTech.org on the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. In these cases, a dilemma arises: should the nuclear production complex go to extreme lengths to recreate the processes needed to remanufacture [nuclear weapons] components exactly according to the original specifications? Or should they look for …
Khan Network: Steve Coll in New Yorker
by | 2006-08-01 | 2 Comments
As far as I can tell, the New Yorker hasn’t posted Steve Coll’s piece on the Khan network yet, but they have a Q&A transcript on their website that’s worth checking out. This excerpt about the time frame for an Iranian nuclear weapon is interesting: Q: The question of how fast can’t be answered definitively, …
